Quotes About Resisting Pain

#1. Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, lives in the now without resisting pain, and accepts the moral sublimity of living in a state of grace.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain.

Anonymous

#3. My hand was shaking as I accepted that perfect hand. I honestly felt that I had sold my soul the moment I felt his hand encircle mine. I was now utterly his; I felt it down to the very marrow of my bones.

Cristina Rayne

#4. My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.

Jewel

#5. Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

Phil McGraw

#6. Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

Diane Wakoski

#7. There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

A. J. Cook

#8. Empower your dreams with deadlines.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#9. Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

Lee L Jampolsky

#10. Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

Robert McNamara

#11. I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?

Donna Lynn Hope

#12. I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. Failure is not an American habit.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#14. Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

Leigh Newman

#15. Everyone look around and see if you can spot the NARCS. They're the ones who look like hippies.

Robert Anton Wilson

#16. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel De Montaigne

#17. Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

Henry Cloud

#18. We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respectfully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

Dora Russell

#20. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well

Pema Chodron

#21. I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

Mark Lanegan