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Quotes About Pain

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
~ Noah Levine
Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.
~ Noah Levine
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.
~ Noah Levine
Finally we are being told the truth: life isn't always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.
~ Noah Levine
Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man
~ Noel Langley
People always say that once it goes away you forget the pain. It's a cliche of childbirth. You forget the pain. I don;t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love.
~ Nora Ephron
once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
~ Nora Ephron
I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
~ Nora Ephron
Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
~ Nora Roberts
squats are a form of torture designed by people who don't need to do squats in the first place
~ Nora Roberts
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
~ Nora Roberts
It might be fun. Love's supposed to be. Laura smiled. When it's not hell.
~ Nora Roberts
Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
~ Nora Roberts
It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.
~ Nora Roberts
Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with? Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me? Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can. Rebecca:You can.
~ Nora Roberts
Every one can master a grief but he that has it. —William Shakespeare
~ Nora Roberts
Seraphina had found nothing but an end, she thought, a horribly easy end to pain. Her own wouldn't be easy, because she would have to live with it. Live without Michael. And finally accept that she would live without her dream.
~ Nora Roberts
Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.
~ Nora Roberts
She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself.
~ Nora Roberts
Intellectually, she knew no one really died of a broken heart. Emotionally, she suspected some could.
~ Nora Roberts
But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you
~ Nora Roberts
Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.
~ Nora Roberts
Durerea o lovea în valuri, tari ÅŸi învolburate, biciuind-o ÅŸi sfâÅŸiindu-i inima. În alte zile, valurile erau lente ÅŸi persistente, ameninÅ£ând s?-i înece sufletul.
~ Nora Roberts
It hurts now, and the pain's real, so hugs, my treasure. But give it a few weeks, and you'll realize he's just another asshole. Kick butt and namaste.
~ Nora Roberts