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“Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet, obviously, there are things for which the adage holds. Perception, trivially, to begin with. If elements of conscious awareness--pains, tickles, feelings of heat and cold, sensory qualia of colors, sounds, and the like--have any existence, it must consist in their being perceived by a subject.... This shows, of course, that such experiences are epiphenomenal, at least with respect to the physical world.”

“The years of imprisonment hardened me ... Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life ... there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.”

Ifs Way Years Has Beens I Can Done Moments Government Happens Pain Next Given Fear Waiting Emotion Known Cases Havens Prison Blow Imprisonment Hardened

Author:Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.”

Ifs Pain Dies Born Who You Are Surprise Forgotten Ghost Unbelievable Dissolution Transience Afraid Of Death

Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

“Loving your subject, you will write about it with the spontaneity and enthusiasm that will transmit itself to your reader. Loving your reader, you will respect him and want to please him. You will not write down to him. You will take infinite pains with your work. You will write well. And if you write well, you will get published.”

Ifs Want Writing Wells Pain Subjects Reader Please Infinite Enthusiasm Spontaneity Loving You Transmit

Author:Lee Wyndham

“The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.”

Ifs Doe Pain Causes Failing Laughter Consequence Ugly Ridiculous Defects Countenance

Author:Aristotle

“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.”

Ifs Way Looks Has Beens Pain Suffering Compassion Our Lives Sorrow Essentials Findings Tasks Mercy Caught Honestly Exile Wrongdoing

Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are

“If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.”

Ifs Facts Pain Suffering Christ Sin Died Great Power Horrific Good Friday Suffering And Pain

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.”

“A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.”

Ifs World Persons Stories Pain Doubt Honest Proud Hero Wake Up Various Despite Uncertainty Get Back Interaction Day To Day Plague Uncertainty And Doubt

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When people try to avoid him, he follows them silently & turns upas the bartender, or the bus driver... Pain has an elaborate filing system for keeping track of everyone... Pain respects people who are willing to take risks. If you... face him directly, he will give you a special ointment so your wounds don't fester.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Pain Faces Turns Voice Risk Special Cry Willing Cold Horse Fingers Track Wounds Subtle Drivers Bus Grey Bartender Filing Respect People Bus Driver

Author:J. Ruth Gendler

“If you're ever making a television show, don't cast smart actors because they are just a pain in the ass. The moment you start to bullshit them you've lost them, so you have to either know what you're talking about or when you don't talk to them.”

Ifs Knows Moments Shows Pain Actors Lost Talking Television Smart Casts Ass Bullshit Television Shows

Author:Ray McKinnon

“I never wanted there to be any moment in my movies when something would happen and the audience would cheer, like sometimes that happens in certain types of horror movies. I was never a fan of that, I wasn't looking for 'inventive' kills and I even hate that word because it's like, if you have these characters screaming or crying in pain I don't think anyone should be jumping out of their seat cheering. It should be horrible and you should feel sick watching it because that's what it is, sick.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Sometimes Moments Character Happens Wanted Pain Certain Hate Audience Fans Cry Type Horror Sick Horrible Seats Cheer Jumping

Author:Rob Zombie

“You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.”

“With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.”

Ifs Soul Pain Choices Causes Consequence Trauma Harm

Author:Gary Zukav

“When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.”

Ifs Wells Pain Suffering Faith Strong Christ Religious Promise Standing Strikes Confirmation Pain And Suffering

Author:John Calvin

“The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're looking to get control of all your problems, forget Christianity. If you're looking for success, happiness, or freedom from pain, forget Christ. The way of Christ is the cross, and the cross spells weakness, poverty, failure, death.”

Ifs Way Looks Mean Facts Problem Pain Faith Christ Religious Loss Forget Christianity Poverty Subjects Weakness Crosses Spells Success Happiness Freedom From Pain

Author:Mike Mason

“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.”

Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance

“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.”

“Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain. My job doesn’t always feel like an integral part of the change that needs to occur. If I can offer, in my profession, to do things that are going to allow more people to connect with certain issues, then I hope it’s useful.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Firsts I Can Pain Together Jobs Certain Actors Nations Religious Acting Leader Issues Planets Offers Scientist Profession Corporations Activist Ceo Religious Leaders

Author:Ellen Page

“A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.”

Ifs Wells Children Persons Humor Funny Pain Lying Five Truth Is Telling The Truth Ems Truthful Only Time Children Love

Author:Bill Cosby

“When I was a kid I would write songs, little plays, and poetry in school. If you're an adult and you're a poet, it's all about love and pain, but if you're a kid it's, "Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?"”

Ifs Knows Writing Littles Doe Play Humor Kids School Funny Pain Song Poet Adults Rhyme Sharks Love And Pain

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But when we're not afraid to confront the hard emotions - when we don't turn away from the pain and the suffering of the world - it builds the confidence that we can do whatever we need to do.”

Ifs World Needs Hard Pain Suffering Turns Strong Can Do Emotion Sadness Heavy Not Afraid Outrage Suppressing

Author:Tim DeChristopher

“You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.”

People Ifs Children Pain Together Suffering Energy Difficult Lucky Degrees Lonely Prepared Frightened Be Prepared Inertia Being Lonely Lucky You

Author:Woody Allen

“The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.”

People Ifs Way Want Writing Pain Night Choices Fronts Bed Grateful Lists Unhappy Agony Indulge Tunnels Exit Happy People Unhappy People

Author:Jim Carrey

“Quite a different thing is, if a seeker, dissatisfied by materialism and doctrines, and longing for spiritual support, will ask advice and information of an adept. In such a case the adept is obliged to supply the seeker with spiritual light and insight, according to his mental powers. Then the magician should spare neither time nor pains to communicate his spiritual treasures and lead the seeker to the light.”

“This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.”

Ifs Done Pain Causes Duty Thee Vegetarian Vegan

Author:Vyasa

“If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.”

“If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.”

Ifs Soul Pain Pure Despair Favors Karma Wander Latter Rejoice Latter Days

Author:Josephus

“The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.”

Ifs Firsts Pain Can Do Healing Half Steps Cost Smile Ill Cancer Hardest Recovery Broken Heart Remedy Hardest Thing Healing Heart

Author:Allen Klein

“If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That's still incoherence. It's not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Stills Enough Pain Causes Acting Trouble Positive Thinking Negative Overcoming Positive Thoughts Somewhere Else Negative Thoughts Incoherence

Book:Thought as a System

Source: Thought as a System

“We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Persons Action Pain Blessing Intelligent Shame Dare Stupidity Punishment Boredom Elsewhere Not Interested Irrelevant Doing Nothing Embarrassment Politeness Repressed

Author:Paul Goodman

“Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But you'll get over the pain, it will eventually stop hurting. Now maybe the stain ruined your favourite pair of jeans, or maybe it was nothing special that was ruined, but either way the stain remains there. And with time, it will begin to fade, but it will always be there, a permanent reminder that you, too, once fell.”

Ifs Way May Pain Fall Hurt Love Is Special Remains Permanent Grass Pairs Temporary Fades Favourite Get Over Jeans Ruined Reminders Stains Love Is Like

Author:John Mayer

“I have always been intrigued by the journals that girls keep. They are like dollhouses. Once you look inside them, the rest of the world seems very far away, even unbelievable. If only we had the power to keep outside ourselves at such moments, we would spare ourselves so much pain and fear. I'm not talking about truth or falsehood but about surviving.”

Ifs World Looks Moments Seems Pain Girl Talking Far Away Falsehood Spares Journal Unbelievable Surviving Not Talking Intrigued That Girl Dollhouses

Book:The Moth Diaries

Source: The Moth Diaries

“If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.”

Ifs Men Want Whole Pain Trouble Comfort Difficulty Whole Life Corpses Coping

Author:Menander

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!”

People Ifs Way Believe Stills Pain Life Is Enjoy Gratitude Universal Grateful Selling Be Grateful Enjoy Life Highness Life Is Pain Selling Something

Author:William Goldman

“Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Pain Suffering Dies Turns House Sleep Imagine Cry Window Iron Agony Unfortunate Lighters Indestructible Irrevocable Sleepers

Author:Lu Xun

“You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.”

Ifs Knows Pain Suffering Know How Valuable Cease

Author:Martha Beck

“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.”

Ifs Way Soul Bigs Might Happens Pain Spiritual Culture Easy Darkness Virtue Failing Journey Essentials Victim Refuse Allowing Healer Admitting Spiritual Journey

Author:Matthew Fox

“A good idea if not acted upon produces terrible psychological pain. But a good idea acted upon brings enormous mental satisfaction. Got a good idea? Then do something about it. Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Here's something to remember: Actions feed and strengthen confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act. To increase fear--wait, put off, postpone.”

Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big

“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.”

Ifs Way Writing May Done Pain Creative Driven Driving Nuts Arrangements Creative Work

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it.”

“I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.”

Ifs Knows Feels Body Happens Pain Guy Feet Legs Your Body Things Happen Chairs Surveys

Author:Mark Zupan

“It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.”

Ifs Knows Men Way Doe Hard Earth Pain Lying He Man Pure Gold Lays Treasure Sand Metals Nevertheless Rubbish Pebbles Dross

Book:The Works of John Locke

Source: The Works of John Locke

“If you are tossed about by doubts, full of strong thoughtless passions, and yearning only for that which is detrimental, your thirst will grow stronger and stronger, unquenched, and your pain will grow with your defilements.”

Ifs Pain Passion Strong Grows Doubt Stronger Buddhist Yearning Thirst Detrimental Defilement

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.”

Ifs Sometimes Eye Pain Suffering Born Worst Filled Pain And Suffering Worst Day

Author:Mother Angelica

“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.”

People Ifs Feels Would Be Pain Suffering

Book:The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People

Source: The Life of the Theatre: The Relation of the Artist to the Struggle of the People

“We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.”

People Ifs Feels Persons War Would Be Pain Suffering Dies Streets Six Destruction Slavery Prison Killing Breasts Throat Seconds Starvation That One Person Bowels

Author:Julian Beck

“If you desire to know where your spiritual work lies, look to your emotional pain.”

Ifs Knows Looks Pain Spiritual Lying Desire Emotional Emotional Pain Spiritual Work

Author:Alan Cohen

“Craving brings pain; craving brings fear. If you do not yield to craving, you will be free from pain and fear”

Ifs Pain Yield Craving

Author:Gautama Buddha

“He who loves his neighbor burns his heart, and the heart, like green wood, groans when it burns, and distills itself in tears. There is no point in taking opium; it is better to put salt and vinegar in the soul's wound, for if you fall asleep and no longer feel the pain, then you no longer exist. And the point is to exist.”

Ifs Feels Heart Soul Pain Fall Tears Green Woods Neighbor Wounds Salt No Point Opium Vinegar

Book:The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

Source: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

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