“After a break-up people always claim that things will get better, and in fact they do. ( but not because we in fact ARE better but that the pain, has beaten every last ounce of feeling from us. after we are wasted away, because food and drink seems to be like sand being choked down, and sleep is no comfort because you know you'll dream of them, and have to wake with knowing they'll not be there. after all this is accepted, we are what people claim is 'better'.” PeopleKnowsFactsFeelingsDreamSeemsPainLastsSleepBreakKnowingDrinkComfortClaimsDown AndAcceptedGet BetterSandBeatenFood And DrinkAfter Break UpThings Will Get Better Author:Gabriel Macht
“Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.” WellsMayStatesPainSufferingGriefClaimsPassingPassingsAnguishThresholdBaptismUnspeakableRegenerationInitiation Author:George Eliot
“Shake hands with Pain, give greeting unto Grief, Those angels in disguise, and thy glad soul From height to height, from star to shining star, Shall climb and claim blest immortality.” GivingSoulHandsPainStarsGriefAngelClaimsShiningGladImmortalityHeightShakesClimbsDisguiseGreetingsShining Star Author:Thomas Jefferson
“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.” MenDifferentChristianPainValuesIndividualViewsKindnessCreaturesClaimsInfiniteCreatorDoctrineContemplatingFavourFiniteBenevolenceSusceptibleTrue Value Author:Charles Babbage
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.” PeopleWellsArtShowsSeemsPainLinesClassGoneProductsClaimsMedicineOilProfessionBunchTherapyFallenInjuryConvinceClientsSnakesHookTherapistsHolisticMassageGullibleMassage Therapists Author:Laura Allen
“Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?” ThinkingIdeasTodayPainClaimsDifficultyCommitGood IdeasNew Ideas Author:Mary Morrissey
“Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is based on the theory that misaligned spinal bones produce nerve interference that causes disease. Many chiropractors claim that correcting these misalignments ("subluxations") can restore health and that regular spinal adjustments are essential to maintain it.” PainCausesProduceTheoryEssentialsDiseaseClaimsBonesCuriousTherapyInjuryNonsenseNervesMixturesAdjustmentInterferenceCorrectingPseudoscienceChiropracticCentennial Book:Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide
“The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.” PersonsPainPleasureFeetYouthGloryClaimsDareDuesVanityAssociates Author:Francois Fenelon
“A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate.” FeelsMatterFeelingsPainFacesPowerfulBrainCasesSupportEvidenceArgumentClaimsFishesContraryPortfoliosObstinatePhysiological Book:Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden Source: Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden