Choosing Pain Quotes

#1. What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?

Heidi R. Kling

#2. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.

Colm Toibin

#3. Runners aren't impervious to pain, we're just better at choosing what kind of pain we have to feel.

And when I run, that's exactly what I'm doing.

I'm asserting control over the uncontrollable.

I'm housebreaking a tornado.

The Oatmeal

#4. What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#5. Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

Bruce Feirstein

#6. 300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.

John Birmingham

#7. I wouldn't want to live that life. I choose the pain. I chose the pain.

Suzanne Palmieri

#8. I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

Michael Schenker

#9. I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

Brittany Maynard

#10. Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

Dan Kimball

#11. Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

Martha Beck

#12. We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#13. Pain defines moments in the lives of all human beings. The trial is not the endurance of pain but the choices we make regarding how to endure.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#14. I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the chains of the cage. I needed this woman. Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.

David Foster Wallace

#15. Love is pain. You can't have one without the other. There's no picking and choosing experiences. The good comes with the bad.

Shyla Colt

#16. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

Amy Carmichael

#17. Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos.

Marianne Williamson

#18. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#19. Every choice involves some kind of pain. Choosing one path means rejecting another along with everything down it.

Jennifer Beckstrand

#20. When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

Veronica Roth

#21. We must stop destroying human capacity. Now.
Too many of today's leaders are holding back the future because it comes wrapped in risks.

Bill Jensen

#22. Choosing not to act on an angry impulse and to feel the pain that lies beneath it is a very courageous thing to do.

Gary Zukav

#23. I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#25. Pain comes with the decision of choosing what I have to offer now, but this same pain is needed to shape you for the greater destiny ahead.

J.D. Netto

#26. I have learned from my own pain is that God's plan for all of us is peace. Being a role model to peace, and spreading peace through being peaceful ourselves. It's about choosing peace instead of pain - this is the bottom line.

Doreen Virtue