Pain Quotes
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Where there is love, there is pain.Danish prove
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King Jr.
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.Hunter S. Thompson
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.William Penn
Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.Greek
Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow".
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.Simonides
The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.Ted W. Engstrom
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.Miguel de Cervantes
Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.John Dryden
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.William Shakespeare
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
I paint self - Portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.Frida Kahlo
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.Buddha, The Dharmapada
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.Julius Caesar, (attributed)
Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.Billy Rose
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.Martin Luther King, Jr.
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.Paul Valery
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.Unknown
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown.William Penn
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
What is hope? nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow - Cheeked harlot we have got hold of.Lord Byron, Letter to Thomas Moore
How glorious it is - And also how painful - To be an exception.Alfred De Musset
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.Albert Einstein
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.Vincent Van Gogh
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth.Hugh Elliott
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.Ulysses
