“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.” WorldWritingFactsPainFormLiteratureCreatingOriginalsGhostRecognitionPeculiarCompositionComposingOutcastTranslatorsWriting Words Author:Lydia Davis
“Drama is hate. Drama is pushing your pain onto others. Drama is destruction. Some take pleasure in creating drama while others make excuses to stay stuck in drama. I choose not to step into a web of drama that I can't get out of.” I CanPainHatePleasureStepsDramaCreatingDestructionExcuseStuckPushing Author:Bindu
“Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.” FeelsLittlesPainBitsCreationComfortableCreatingLittle Bit Author:Antonio Banderas
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.” PeopleIfsHumansDoeHappensPainJoyPleasurePracticeHappenedLike YouOughtCreatingUnityBusyEsteemHuman SocietyNo LoveLike Yourself Author:Meister Eckhart
“... I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality and pain and such suffering in the world if the universe is compassionate and wise. The reason is we put it there. We create it. And it is up to us to stop creating it.” IfsKnowsWorldReasonPainSufferingUniverseWiseCreatingCompassionateBrutality Author:Gary Zukav
“There are some - called 'death fatigue' - people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.” PeopleThinkingWantEnoughEyePainLawGrowsLimitsCreatingOriginalsVictimTiredPatternsHealFatigueRetaliationPerpetuatingEye For An Eye Author:Shane Claiborne
“Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.” YearsArtStillsPainThreeOpportunityVoiceHurtCreativityCreatingRageThirtyThree YearsThree Year OldsCreating Art Author:Kanye West
“It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer” IfsWould BeEarthPainDesirePleasureAnimalGreaterCreatingSatisfactionAgonyDistressTransitory Book:101 Facts of life Source: 101 Facts of life
“I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayPainCertainSufferingCausesNaturalSituationConditionsEventsJudgingDegreesPerceptionCreatingLet MeFunctionResistanceInstancePhenomenonHere I AmNatural Phenomena Author:Hubert Selby, Jr.
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.” NeedsPainEnergyPleasureCreatingDestroying Book:How to be Free Source: How to be Free