“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.” PainSufferingPleasureForeverBirthLifetimeRoundsEndlessWheelsHinduismLife DeathSentient BeingsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.” PeopleBelieveWantedPainLife IsValuesSongEffortDemocracyCenturyTearsBirthVoteBreathsNobleExperimentsBest ThingsTragicSweatCollapseThings In LifeToilTwentieth CenturyFallacyDecadenceBest Things In LifeOld SongBest Things In Life Are Free Book:Starship Troopers Source: Starship Troopers
“What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.” PainSufferingGriefBirthSorrowDespairNobleAgeingLamentation Author:Gautama Buddha
“What has happened to our ability to dwell in the unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance? These things are what form the ground of waiting.” PainFormWaitingAbilityHappenedBirthPatientUncertaintyTensionSomething NewEnduranceWillingnessUnfoldingCoexistUnknowing Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.” PeopleIfsWayGivingPersonsEndsProblemPainRememberBitsForgetHugeBirthGloryGloriousQuestsChildbirthAggravationInconvenienceForget The Pain Book:The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One Source: The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One
“We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again.” KnowsPainRememberLyingBornBirthRedRootsRoseFleshFlare Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.” IfsPainMovingDesireTurnsEvilCausesPleasureResultsExistenceHellSawsBirthCreaturesIndividualityDeedsKarmaDisgustingThirstCraveLiving CreaturesObnoxious Author:Gautama Buddha
“I endeavor to drink deep of philosophy, and to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient where there is no redress. The mighty can do no more, and the wise seldom do as much. ... I am resolved to make the best of all circumstances around me, that this short life may not be half lost in pains ... Between the periods of birth and burial, I would fain insert a little happiness, a little pleasure, a little peace: to-day is ours, yesterday is past, and to-morrow may never come.” MayLittlesPhilosophyWisdomPainPastLostEasyCan DoPleasureHalfWiseAcceptanceBirthPeriodsCircumstancesDrinkPatientYesterdayGladEndeavorMerryBeing WiseMorrowShort LifeBurialInsertRedress Author:Elizabeth Montagu
“The world of time, of space and condition, pleasure and pain, birth, growth, maturation, decay and death, spinning, spinning, spinning this world, always spinning.” WorldPainSufferingGrowthSpacePleasureConditionsThis WorldBuddhismBirthDecaySpinningPain And Pleasure Author:Frederick Lenz
“Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.” MeanPainSufferingBuddhismBirthEnlightenmentIllusionBirth And DeathLife And TimeIllusion Of Time Author:Frederick Lenz
“Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.” GivingStatesMomentsBodyPainConsciousnessWonderBirthMiracleCellsAweAlteredChildbirthGiving BirthStates Of ConsciousnessAwe And WonderAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Riane Eisler
“When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.” WorldHeartEnoughPainJoyFallIdentityBirthOceanEmptyEmbraceBirth And DeathRise And FallJoy And Pain Author:Jack Kornfield
“Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us.” PersonsMomentsPainBeautifulBirthIndifferentGraveyardEnchantedDeep Pain Author:Robert Musil
“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.” WorldMayChildrenMadeHardReasonSeemsEyePainJoyStarsPleasureBehindsSadnessBirthSorrowSadLaughterIllusionBuiltBlindMaskAppetiteTemperamentCoarseCallousBirth Of A Child Author:Oscar Wilde
“So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.” PainBehindsOur LivesDependsBirthAccidentsGeography Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.” BodyPainOpportunityNaturalPowerfulBirthNormalCapableLosingLaborSightInherentStrength And Wisdom Author:Deepak Chopra