EMOTIONAL
PAIN & HURT
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Fear
is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
-- Aristotle
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History,
despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived,
but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
-- Maya Angelou
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"I
imagine one of the reasons people cling to their
hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once
hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with
pain."
-- James Baldwin
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"The
man who can drive himself further once the effort gets
painful is the man who will win."
-- Roger Bannister
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It
is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell
your friend his faults. So to love a man that you
cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak
painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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family. We were a strange little band of characters
trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste,
coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo,
borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms,
inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same
instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying
to figure out the common thread that bound us all
together.
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Waiting
is painful. Forgetting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worse kind
of suffering.
-- Paulo Coelho
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"Most
of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental
deadheads. On average, society conditions us to
spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking
disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence
in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting.
We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively,
consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our
psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within
us that bullies us into our dilemmas."
~ Michael J. Cohen
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You can turn painful situations around through
laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even
poverty, you can survive it.
-- Bill Cosby
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Our
prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt
them.
-- The
Dalai Lama
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An
act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some
of the pain of the world, increases the courage
and love and hope of all.
-- Dorothy Day
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"If
I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
-- Emily Dickinson
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein
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All
my life I had been looking for something, and
everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what
it was. I accepted their answers too, though they
were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.
I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking
everyone except myself questions which I, and
only I, could answer. It took me a long time and
much painful boomeranging of my expectations to
achieve a realization everyone else appears to
have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
–Ralph Ellison
“Domestic
violence causes far more pain than the visible
marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating
to be abused by someone that you love and think
loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately
3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported
each year in the United States.”
-- Dianne Feinstein
"Peace
is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is
a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security.
Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living.
Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts
-- to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways
that say, “I would like to make sure we live as
a community where there is justice, security,
and development for all members.” At the end of
the day, peace is an investment; it is something
you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring
where your resources go."
-- Noeleen Heyzer
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If
most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is
because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer
the pleasures of illusion.
~ Aldous Huxley
Amour
is the one human activity of any importance in
which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever
so slightly, over misery and pain.
~ Aldous Huxley
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No
society has been able to abolish human sadness,
no political system can deliver us from the pain of
living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute.
It is the human condition that directs the social condition,
not vice versa.
-- Eugene Ionesco
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“You
dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to
the memory.”
-- Janet
Jackson
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"Forgiveness
is an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine
a better future, one that is based on the blessed
possibility that your hurt will not be the final
word on the matter. It challenges you to give up
your destructive thoughts about the situation and
to believe in the possibility of a better future.
It builds confidence that you can survive the pain
and grow from it. "
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“I find the pain of a little censure, even when
it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure
of much praise.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
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Believe,
when you are most unhappy, that there is something
for you to do in the world. So long as you can
sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
-- Helen
Keller
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"We
want simply to live in peace
We want to raise up our children
And save our brothers and sisters...
We want our families to remain whole.
Let us walk out of our isolation and join one
another.
Let us walk out of our tears and screams of pain."
-- Imane
Khalifeh
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Holding
on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense
muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your
teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the
lightness in your life.
-- Joan Lunden
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To
be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without
expecting anything in return. To just give. That
takes courage, because we don’t want to fall on
our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
--
Madonna
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One
good thing about music,
when it hits you, you feel no pain.
-- Bob Marley
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Take
chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.
Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail
in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore
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Everyone
must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline
or the pain of regret.
-- Jim Rohn
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In
science it often happens that scientists say,
"You know that's a really good argument; my
position is mistaken," and then they actually
change their minds and you never hear that old
view from them again. They really do it. It
doesn't happen as often as it should, because
scientists are human and change is sometimes
painful. But it happens every day. I cannot
recall the last time something like that happened
in politics or religion. -- Carl
Sagan
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Once
you experience Third World poverty, you're really
changed forever, if you're at all open to it,
because we're all united in our common humanity.
And we are so made as to feel something for
people who are in pain. It's not possible to
be human and to be unaffected by what you see
in the third world.
-- Martin Sheen
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One
of the most liberating tools for peacebuilders
is learning to let go. We carry so many burdens
with us, from our childhood throughout our lives.
We carry hurts about wrongs that were done to
us. We carry regrets about things we wish we
had or hadn't done. We hide these memories,
but the anger and hurt and regret can influence
the way we think and interact without our even
knowing it.
-- Robert Alan
Silverstein
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I know what it feels like to be hurt, and I
don't want to cause that pain to any other person
or creature. But somehow, in society, we numb
ourselves in order to make money or to feel
better about ourselves...
-- Alicia
Silverstone
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"Yes,
I want to remind people that in the Indigenous
Traditions, women are very important. Not because
we are told we are important but because we
know that since forever and always, we have
had the power and the capacity to give birth,
raise women and men and to take care of the
earth. It is today that I thusly give celebration
to all the women on Earth. I would like to ask
my sisters to give up the thoughts and actions
of the word victim. We are no longer Victims
& We are strong! I would like to address an
acknowledgement to each woman here today. We
have the power and that power is rising. Use
it to preserve, teach, share, and raise our
voices, to save our children, our planet, our
people, and our earth mother. Don't share the
things that have hurt us but share what can
save us. Turn our scars into Stars! Come together
and reclaim what is inherently ours, the power
to bring forth nurturing Peace! May Peace Prevail!"
-- Mary Thunder
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"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no
one is listening. Love like you've never been
hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
-- Mark Twain
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Humor
is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people
who are oppressed to smile at the situation
that pains them.
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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Forgiveness
is not always easy. At times, it feels more
painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive
the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is
no peace without forgiveness.
-- Marianne
Williamson
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The
struggle of my life created empathy - I could
relate to pain, being abandoned, having people
not love me.
--
Oprah Winfrey
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“When
I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner
cities, I also see the enormous potential and
readiness for transformation and rebirth. We
are creating an art form that comes from the
heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's
lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love.
This process lays the foundation of building
a genuine community in which people are reconnected
with their families, sustained by meaningful
work, nurtured by the care of each other and
will together raise and educate their children.
Then we witness social change in action.”
-- Lily Yeh
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