We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.
Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.
When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to himher, but heshe also hates you.
To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will.
But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.
I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.
My joy is as painful as my pain.
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.
Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.
The same is the case when you enter a womb, enter into a fresh body, and start the journey of desires. But if you die alert, in that alertness not only the body dies, all desires evaporate. Then there is no entering into a womb. Then entering a womb is such a painful process, it is so painful that consciously you cannot do it; only unconsciously you can do it.
When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.
Even a painful longing is some form of presence.
It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it
I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.
The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.