Quotes with pain-threshold

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  • Mary Cholmondeley Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  • Homer For too much rest becomes a pain.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Francis Thompson For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • John Lennon God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Hazlitt Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anne Grant Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
    Anne Grant
    Scottish poet and author (1755 - 1838)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Jefferson How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Allen Klein Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Albert Einstein Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore I came to your shore as a stranger, I lived in your home as a guest, I leave your threshold as a friend, my earth.
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Sting I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Anne Ford I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't understand.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • Arthur Golden I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Georges Bernanos I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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