P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego.”
Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu
“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”
Source: The Hanging Girl
“Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.”
Source: The continuum concept
“Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.”
“Pain and love cannot be in the same space. You can never love anyone in pain. You cannot truly love yourself in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.”
“Pain and love cannot co-exist in the same space. You can never love anyone from a place of pain. You cannot truly love yourself when you are in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.”
Source: Beyond The Pain: A Return to Love
“Pain and love create a poet!”
“Pain’ and ‘Misery’ are two different things. Pain is external, but misery is entirely internal. You may be in pain, but still, you can be happy. On the other hand, you may have all the things of this world, but still, you can feel miserable.”
Source: Survive to Thrive: Journey of Dr. Rajesh Soin
“Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.”
“Pain and passion synchronized
comprising unborn, old and wise
Songs of the soul
oh, in torment they are born”
Source: During the Hours
“Pain and pleasure are the same energy inside you. When it flows at a slow rate like sunlight in a morning winter, it's pleasure. When the flow rate goes beyond a threshold, it's pain.”
“Pain and pleasure are the yin and yang of love.”
“Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, while trying at the same time to remove their hold. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill [...].The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.”
“Pain and pleasure, it's a sweet delectable combination." ~ Alexander Hudson”
Source: A Sweet Delectable Combination: Pain and Pleasure
“Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there”
Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience
“Pain and pleasure will keep coming; that is all scientific circumstantial evidence. Pain and pleasure are effective (effects of past causes). In such situations, one should do something that will not cause effects to arise.”
Source: The Science Of Karma
“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.”
“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.”
Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, Etc
“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.”
“Pain… and sadness. Is there anyone who doesn’t bear such darkness? All of us are easy to hurt, and thus all the hungrier for love”
Source: Alice in Borderland
“Pain and self-loathing habitually implants its incendiary embers in the universal desire for other people to love us. What a life torn asunder by bolts of pain laced with shame teaches us is that we cannot look endlessly for other people to love us. We must delve from ourselves the ability to unreservedly love all life forms and empathize with all people. We should care for, and not judge, or be envious of other people. When we learn unconditionally to love other people, we learn to accept our own fitful humanity.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Pain and sickness and hunger and fighting—there's no need for any of it. It's as foolish as those little monkeys.”
“Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler: To which is Prefixed, an Account of the Character and Writings of the Author
“Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.”
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
Source: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time
“Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.”
“Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.”
Source: Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land
“Pain and suffering are the seeds of growth, watered by the tears of our Hearts.”
“Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”
“Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.”
Source: Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
“Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.”
Source: A Lil' Bert Can't Hurt: Words and Wisdom for Daily Life
“Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
“Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.”
“Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.”
Source: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
“Pain and Suffering, the cousins of Chaos and Uncertainty, are my other companions.
I have walked with them all my life.”
Source: Life of a Sunset Kid
“Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.”
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
“Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.”
“Pain and wisdom are best friends. The more time you spend with one, the more you understand the other.”
“Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong.”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“Pain as old as time itself, threaded with memories of heartache old and new, are translated into wails of anguish, the sonnet of her life.”
Source: Victorian Songlight: The Birthings of Magic & Mystery
“Pain avoidance is part of life. A campaign to minimize hunger and lessen pain drives us to develop systems that will provide us with nourishing food and protective shelter. Pain is a trickster. It can send us true or false signals that confine us to our beds or spur us to roam long and far. Pain has a lifesaving function. Pain can signal us to implement evasive action or attack our problems head-on. Pain has a putative role. Pain can torture us for engaging in careless deeds. Pain performs a restorative role. Pain can tell us when we must rest. Pain is tutor and a healer. Pain implores us to take heed of our physical and mental infirmities, urges us to call out for help, and compels us to adopt modified strategies.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you.”
Source: Cursed Bread
“Pain before blessing. Dark before light. Sadness before joy. All good things come in time.”
Source: Up from Dust: Martha's Story
“Pain breaks us, Faith lifts us and stories remind us that we can rise again... as many times as we need to.”
“Pain by itself is merely pain,
but the experience of pain couples with an understanding
that the pain serves a worthy purpose as suffering.
Suffering can be endured because
there is a reason for it that is worth the effort.
What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul?”
“Pain can be a beautiful thing.”
“Pain can be a good teacher at times, while other times pain can be what holds us back. Knowing how to learn and let go is the way towards unburdened happiness.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Pain can be dismissed.”
“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated.”
Source: Velocity: A Novel