Quotes on Pain
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
Rules for Being Human:
1) You will learn lessons.
2) There are no mistakes - only lessons.
3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned.
4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.)
5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
Anonymous
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
This is the source.
Let the body avoid discomfort (if it can), and if it feels it, say so. But the soul is what feels fear and pain, and what conceives of them in the first place, and it suffers nothing.
Marcus Aurelius
This is the source.
Unendurable pain brings its own end with it. Chronic pain is always endurable: the intelligence maintains serenity by cutting itself off from the body, the mind remains undiminished. And the parts that pain affects - let them speak for themselves, if they can.
Marcus Aurelius
This is the source.
Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquility. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.
Marcus Aurelius
This is the source.
To fear pain is to fear something that's bound to happen, the world being what it is - and that again is blasphemy. While if you pursue pleasure, you can hardly avoid wrongdoing - which is manifestly blasphemous.
Marcus Aurelius
This is the source.
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