Best Chronic Pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 3

“When we had first wed, our farmhouse with its false foundation had been in danger of collapsing. But we'd secured it with a solid beam. Didn't our marriage deserve the same? Maybe seduction could be accomplished in ten seconds, but making a marriage work takes a lot longer. Maybe even a lifetime.”

Pain Marriage Feminism Memoir Pregnancy Partnership Chronic Pain High Risk Pregnancy Bed Rest

Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.”

“If I were somebody dealing with chronic pain, I would see it as a challenge to manage my mind; even knowing that the effect of my thoughts is not only affecting my experience, but it is absolutely affecting the state of my health.”

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Author:Cheryl Richardson

“Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.”

Mind Pain Challenges Manage Invitations Chronic Pain

Author:Cheryl Richardson

“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.”

“Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.”

Source: Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign

“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.”

“The weaker we feel, the harder we lean on God. And the harder we lean the stronger we grow.”

Feels Grows Harder Stronger Chronic Pain Sculpting

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Now that I am conscious of the world of chronic pain, when I see somebody walking down the street who's having trouble, I feel a sadness for them. I notice.”

World Feels Pain Trouble Sadness Streets Walking Conscious Chronic Pain

Author:Lynne Tillman

“So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.”

Problem Pain Causes Common Anxiety Cancer Medical More Time Linked Chronic Pain Menopause Medical Problems

Author:Shelby Harris

“So if somebody has chronic pain, we want to manage the pain, but we still want to treat the insomnia separately. So what we'll tend to do in our sleep lab is we'll do a thorough evaluation and we usually have myself, who is a Psychologist and a Sleep Behavioral Sleep Specialist, I treat the patients first.”

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Author:Shelby Harris

“I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I was five, I brought home a stray kitten I named Tiger. This was my first rescued animal. It wasn't until I became an actor, and then injured my spine, that I discovered that these animals were actually very therapeutic and helped me to cope with my chronic pain.”

Firsts Long I Can Home Pain Remember Actors Animal Five Tigers Injured Spine Kitten Therapeutic Chronic Pain

Author:Ken Wahl

“I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.”

Feels Use Might Pain Spirit Sin Deals Attitude Capable Complaining Tendencies Revealing Sour Lemons Chronic Pain

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.”

Ifs Knows Real Enough Body Pain Poor Poverty Lucky Invisible Ease Odd Incessant Chronic Pain Poor Health Ubiquity

Author:C.E. Morgan

“Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.”

Pain Ill Chronic Pain Mentally Ill

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.”

Mean Sometimes Pain Artist Chronic Pain

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away. To live with your ‘thorn’ uncomplainingly — that is, sweet, patient, and free in heart to love and help others, even though every day you feel weak — is true sanctification. It is true healing for the spirit. It is a supreme victory of grace.”

“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”

Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places

“Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.”

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Author:Herbert Benson

“The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.”

Body Pain Left Sides Brain Arms Areas Ears Function Responsible Breasts Motor Elbows Fingertips Chronic Pain

Author:Karen Duffy

“The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.”

Feels Body Grows Waste Harder Stronger Chronic Pain Sculpting

Book:In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

Source: In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

“God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.”

Use Pain Our Lives Weakness Affliction Chronic Pain Chisels Sculpting

Book:In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

Source: In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer

“You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.”

Thinking Feels Mind Different Feelings Pain Millions Like You Type Sorry Track Unfair Chronic Pain Stop Time

Author:Phil Anselmo

“I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.”

People Years Pain Known Chronic Pain

Author:Naomi Judd

“It's so important for those living with chronic pain to establish good communication with both their healthcare professionals and caregivers. Clear communication about pain is vital to receiving proper diagnosis and effective treatment.”

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Author:Naomi Judd