Quotes About Pain

The more you practice, the more skill you can develop in reducing pain or at least becoming more transparent to it, so that it is less eroding of your quality of life.

El dolor emocional, el dolor de nuestro corazón y el dolor de nuestra mente son mucho más dañinos y habituales que el dolor físico.

It does provide a greater basket for tenderly holding and intimately knowing our suffering in any and all circumstances, and that, it turns out, is transformative, and can make all the difference between endless imprisonment in pain and suffering and freedom from suffering

L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This work involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete owning of each moment of your experience, good, bad, or ugly. This is the essence of full catastrophe living.

As so often is the case, the public hero that others admire can leave quite a trail of private hurt in his wake.

Profoundly healing insights may arise if you are willing to look deeply into your emotional pain as it is occurring, as well as in its aftermath. One major realization you might come to is the inevitability of change, the direct perception that, whether we like it or not, impermanence is in the very nature of things and relationships.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

The sickness of a family member, friend or neighbor is a call to Christians to demonstrate true compassion, that gentle and persevering sharing in another's pain.

The bastards murdered half my family.

I'm a living abortion.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

The introduction of heartache began as a child.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.