“Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.” IfsKnowsHumansMeanDoePainJusticeVirtueMankindHuman NatureHonorGainsAppearanceEsteemAcknowledgeHypocrisyHypocriteOrnaments Book:The spectator Source: The spectator
“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!” YearsChildrenReasonLightAgePainPastFallDarkPayLaughingHonorProfoundCastsOld AgeFiftyRaysBlindnessAlasTremblingFlickerDeafnessGout Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger
“True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.” MenDoeCharacterPainPrinciplesHonestHonorCostAbuseCreditReputationAttachmentHonourPerilPromptsPretenceGood WordsGood Reputation Author:Thomas Gordon
“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.” MenPainEnjoyPleasurePayConsciousnessDutyHonorRewards Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.” WorldPainBornDangerHonor Author:Philip Sidney
“Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.” IfsThinkingMeanPainEasyChallengesHurtPowerfulSupportHonorCircumstancesForgivenessToolsDecidedForgivingCome UpExtremesAcknowledgeResentmentNot ForgivingFesteringHurt And PainProtecting Ourselves Author:Howard Martin
“I surrender it to God, knowing that the pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain. Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.” GivingTryingHumansPainMovingProcessRoomsGriefExistenceKnowingProductsHonorNormalReflectionSurrenderGod KnowsHuman ExistenceKinderInterpreting Author:Marianne Williamson
“It can take years of tears to melt the hardness that develops in this world, covering our tender, gentler inner selves. Tears for every devastating loss, tears for every humiliating failure, tears for every repeated mistake. Those who honor those tears, and even honor them, are not failures at love but rather its true initiates. First the pain and then the power. First the heart breaks and then it soars.” WorldYearsFirstsHeartSelfPainLossMistakeBreakThis WorldTearsHonorSoarInner SelfCoveringHeart BreakHumiliatingInitiateHardnessDevastating Loss Author:Marianne Williamson
“It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.” PeopleThinkingMenDonePainResponsibilityHonorIncrediblesScaryOld ManConfusingImpressiveIntimidatingHold Me Author:Naomi Watts
“The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones.” YearsActionPainLife IsFallSleepHalfSilenceStruggleJourneyHonorRiversStonesBonesBurningClimbsDividesHoneyMetalsBeesBurnedSweetnessArrowsLife Is LikeDiscardedLonesomeBonfire Book:Still Another Day Source: Still Another Day
“How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.” WaySometimesPainRememberYoungMotherMy OwnForgetSawsHonorDaughterSkinsBonesFleshScarTrue Nature Author:Amy Tan
“To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--” PeopleIfsWayFeelsShouldWritingArtSaidPainArtistEvilPowerfulHonorTasteDespairHighestArt IsSuicideConvictionCommitTrue ArtistsUniversality Author:John Gardner
“But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)” IfsNeedsBelieveHeartMeanStoriesHappensCarePainBrokenHonorThousandDecidedInfiniteRetelling Book:Night Source: Night
“The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create.” HumansHas BeensSaidI CanEndsEyeAblePainCan DoAcceptingHonorMetsGood And BadCan Do SomethingInventiveness Author:Kim Harrison
“How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259” IfsThinkingWantMaySeemsPainStrangeHonorTerribleBlessedSignificanceImpermanenceGranite Author:Rachel Naomi Remen
“You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.” WellsPainHurtGreaterHonorCloseness Author:Masashi Kishimoto
“When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.” KnowsWayInspirationalPainSufferingCompassionHonorTrainSuperiorsPityTouch Someone Author:Stephen Levine
“He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.” IfsFeelsPainHonorGratitudeBenefitsCharityMotivePhilanthropyPhilanthropic Author:Aristotle
“There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.” Has BeensMomentsPainSpiritualChoicesSpiritualityForgetKnownKnowledgeHonorBreatheRealizationThat MomentRealisingContinuingCan NotStoppingForget ItExceedDiscomfortThresholdUnthinkableSpiritual TransformationThere Comes A TimeThinkablePain Threshold Book:Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart Source: Soul to Soul: Communications from the Heart
“Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.” FeelingsLightPainDarkEmotionGrowingHonorAcheMessyHumannessGrowing Pains Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison