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“Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.”

Ifs Men Feels Has Beens Would Be Pain Moving Felt Causes Fronts He Man Blow Legs Destroyed Noses Preservation Limbs Joints Foreheads

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”

Ifs Littles War Light Pain Remember Mother Girl Process Hours Perfect Cities Silence Darkness Sitting Oil Pregnant Lamps Farming Spinning Barns Midwife Yarn Birthing Mares City Girl

Author:Diet Eman

“God pity us indeed, for we are human, And do not always see, The vision when it comes, the shining change, Or, if we see it, do not follow it, Because it is too hard, too strange, too new, Too unbelievable, too difficult, Warring too much with common, easy ways, And now I know this, standing in this light, Who have been half alive these many years, Brooding on my own sorrow, my own pain, Saying "I am a barren bough. Expect, Nor fruit nor blossom from a barren bough."”

“It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.”

Ifs Believe Has Beens Pain America Faces House I Believe Can Do White Company Break Trouble Car Fixed Experts White House Breaking Down Rope Bureaucrats Chrysler

Author:Lee Iacocca

“Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“There's a secret to get through loss, pain and grief. If we're alone we can't see who we are. When we join the club, other people become the mirror. Through them, we see ourselves and gain an understanding of what we're going through. Then slowly, real slowly, we learn to accept who we see in the mirror. Then you become the mirror for them; by being honest about who you are, you'll help them learn to love and accept themselves.”

People Ifs Real Helping Pain Understanding Loss Grief Secret Accepting Honest Gains Mirrors Who You Are Clubs Being Honest Who We Are

Author:Melody Beattie

“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”

Ifs Might Pain Trouble Ought Deceiving Disguise

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.”

Ifs Knows Love Pain Mother Love Is Passionate Passionate Love Love Is Pain

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.”

Ifs Wells Pain Joy Remains Ill Deeds Fades

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”

People Ifs Thinking World Pain Faces Alive Taught Empathy Connected Wounds World History Unprecedented Dickens

Author:James A. Baldwin

“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Self Reality Pain Suffering I Believe Know How Comfort Endure Cease Comfort And Happiness

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Long Humor Happens Pain Term Effects Perspective Constant Endless Comic Long Term Sensibility Renewal Short Term Coping Filters

Author:Woody Allen

“Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.”

Ifs Action Pain Courses Pleasure Greater Balance Painful Pleasant You Choose

Book:The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws

Source: The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws

“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.”

Source: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950

“Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.”

Ifs Heart Made Pain Song Powerful Quiet Daughter Thee Sweetness Aphrodite

Book:Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual”

Ifs Pain Evil Individual Community Pleasure Party Cases Objects Produce Particular Benefits Happenings Advantage Property Unhappiness Utility Mischief

Book:The Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation

“He sees himself in his lover as if in a mirror, not knowing whom he sees, And when they are together, he too is released from pain, and when apart, he longs as he himself is longed for; for reflected in his heart is love's image, which is love's answer. But he calls it, and believes it, not love but friendship.”

Ifs Believe Heart Pain Together Answers Knowing Lovers Mirrors Not Knowing

Author:Mary Renault

“He that is to govern a whole Nation , must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Mankind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be only to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.”

Ifs Men Kind Hard Whole Pain Reading Left Language Nations My Own Mankind Particular Harder Doctrine Demonstration Orderly

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Stills Pain Water Fire Too Much Events Ought Cost Preserves Scepticism

Author:David Hume

“In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.”

Ifs Looks Country Pain Sin Hell Prostitution Anglo Saxon

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.”

Ifs Knows World Pain Suffering This World Capacity Overcoming Annihilation Unspeakable

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.”

People Ifs Pain Approval

Author:Joyce Meyer

“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.”

“If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.”

Ifs Knows World Want Persons Stills Pain Suffering Loneliness Planets Despair

Author:Elie Wiesel

“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.”

Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

“Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain”

Ifs Want Heart I Can Feelings Pain My Heart Mets Filled Embarrassing

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.”

Ifs Pain Interesting Attention Boring Things In Life And Off

Book:Rise of Endymion

Source: Rise of Endymion

“A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.”

Ifs Men Pain Causes Walks Watches Path Wise Embrace Free Will Humankind

Book:Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three

Source: Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

Ifs Knows Want Love Children Pain Love Is

Author:Giannina Braschi

“If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.”

Ifs Done Pain Unity Woe Garments

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“We have the tendency to judge others by their surface appearance, and to find only their negative qualities. But if we search beneath the surface we discover that a myriad of strains mix together to create a particular person's nature. The faults we perceive are likely to be the effect of circumstances, the psychological response to trauma, abuse, rejection, heartbreak, insecurity, pain, confusion, or disease.”

“If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.”

Ifs Trying Stills Hands Pain Lying Felt My Own Pulse Garments My Own Life

Book:Duende: Poems

Source: Duende: Poems

“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”

People Ifs Pain Turns Forget Sorrow Embrace Endure Drowning

Book:The Assassin's Blade

Source: The Assassin's Blade

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.”

Ifs Pain Motivation Easy Source Checks Primaries Therapy Things To Do Injury Links Allowing Avoiding Credibility Thumbs Don't Trust Dubious Bloggers Easy Things Primary Source

Author:Ben Goldacre

“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.”

People Ifs Years Stills Pain Fall Clear Car Stupid Hundred Medicine Miles Therapy Injury Amazed Pills Gallons Scams Sales Pitch

Author:Dean Edell

“If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?”

Ifs May Persons Matter Pain Teach Products Findings Method Average Communicate Critical Therapy Injury Average Person Pseudoscience

Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.”

Ifs May Important Action Pain Religion Pleasure Cases Morality Sick Oneself Pursuit Torture Behaviour Utility Sympathetic Pain And Pleasure

Book:Choice, Welfare and Measurement

Source: Choice, Welfare and Measurement

“The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.”

Ifs Feels Reason Light Pain Wonderful Buddhism Busy Patterns No Pain

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Pain Suffering Sports Animal Sea Degrees Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Scream Agony Delay Disadvantages Gauges Angling

Author:Desmond Morris

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.”

Source: Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations

“If you want to help people, if you care, go to the cities. The city is where the pain is the greatest - and the cities are a hell of a lot of fun if you like art, movies and plays.”

People Ifs Want Art Play Helping Care Pain Fun Cities Hell Buddhism If You Care

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Its seems to me - it's likely that heaven's here right now. If you could take life with its pain and misery, where you fail and you sometimes win, and if you package it into a game, people would pay a fortune to have this game. And I don't know that I'd want it to be resolved so peacefully that the game would be all over.”

People Ifs Knows Want Sometimes Seems Would Be Pain Games Winning Heaven Pay Failing Atheism Right Now Misery Fortune Positive Atheism Packages

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.”

Ifs Persons Self Play Pain Sports Cutting Who You Are Golf Core Self Worth Tied Tied Up

Author:James E. Loehr

“If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no gain. You've got to sweat to improve.”

Ifs Want Years Pain Levels Fit Gains Extras Sweat No Pain Physically Fit

Author:Andrew Stone

“If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Moments Use Feelings Body Pain Actors Emotion Gone Involved Anxiety Tools Access Your Body Severe

Author:Joel Kinnaman

“Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.”

People Ifs Knows Want Needs Should Humans States Government Pain America Law Hurt Human Beings Violence Protect Federal Government Acts Of Violence

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.”

Ifs Thinking Long Enough Use Happens Pain Joy Suffering Values Hurt Sorrow Elements Messages Fingers Flames Minors Optional Critters Elements Of Life

Author:Alan Cohen

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