“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.” ThinkingWayTodayPainLastsCenturyChangedAmountTreatsPatientCancerEnormousReliefProvidingPhysiciansPsychicsSolacePain ReliefTreating Patients Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved.” PeopleThinkingWantChildrenHardPainHurtHard Times Author:Aleksa Palladino
“I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!” PeopleThinkingAblePainBabyMedicineNo Pain Author:Busy Philipps
“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.” ThinkingWayLifeSometimesUsePainBeautifulJoyFallSoundWaterPrayerSilenceSkyPrayingHappeningsVery GoodCrowdsOddOver YouFourthFloatsRocketsJulyVery Beautiful Author:Frederick Buechner
“I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love - what a wonderful testing ground, what a wonderful place to see and sense our limitations, to know that the pain reflects your state of awareness and not being able to hide from it.” ThinkingKnowsStatesAblePainWonderfulAwarenessBuddhismSexualityLimitationI've LearnedTestingWonderful Places Author:Frederick Lenz
“Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.” PeopleThinkingHeartHelpingPainLostAudienceSpecialLosingEntertainmentAppealsEaseFascinationAdrenalineSpecial Places Author:Sonya Walger
“I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.” ThinkingPainScared Author:Loretta Young
“Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.” ThinkingInspirationalSelfHardPainDiesBuddhismHarderHopelessSelf KnowledgeWithout Hope Author:Frederick Lenz