“I know what love feels like. That is one thing I have found. That is one thing that is much clearer because of fibromyalgia. Because once you experience real pain you recognize the vibration, the feeling of being healthy, happy and loved. If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. I need to do things that feed my soul, like being with people I love, or playing my guitar, or listening to music.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsFeelsHeartRealSoulFeelingsPainFoundOne ThingListeningMy HeartHealthySickGuitarMy SoulListening To MusicVibrationsReal PainHealthy Happy Author:A. J. Langer
“Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.” PeopleStoriesUsePainLyingListeningNewsGood News Author:Karen Armstrong
“I choose to not ignore or push away emotional pain. Instead, I allow it to move through me. Sometimes, that's quietly working on a puzzle and listening to an all-strings Pandora station, and others, it's being vulnerable with a trusted friend. Either way, I let it have its place.” WaySometimesPainMovingEmotionalListeningVulnerableStringsStationsTrustedPuzzlesEmotional PainPandoraTrusted Friends Author:Jennifer Widerstrom
“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” WorldGodChristianPainSpeakChallengesPleasureListeningDepressionConscienceEncouragementGods WillDeafPain And PleasurePain And SufferingApologeticWalking With GodJoy And PainChristian GodGrief ObservedOvercoming DepressionWorld SufferingBeing DepressedSuffering PainGreat ChristianPain SufferingHelp With DepressionDepression InspirationalBest GodPain PleasureGod Is With UsBest Christian Author:C. S. Lewis
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity