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		<title>Remedying Quotes on Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Suffering any sort of pain can be impossible to bear. Whether it is short or long term, pain is impossible to avoid in life. But looking at it from a different perspective will help us deal with it. Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – William [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>Suffering any sort of pain can be impossible to bear. Whether it is short or long term, pain is impossible to avoid in life. But looking at it from a different perspective will help us deal with it.</p>
<p>Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.<br />
– William C. Bryant</p>
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<p>You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.<br />
– James Baldwin</p>
<p>Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain&#8230; To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.<br />
– Kevyn Aucoin</p>
<p>If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.<br />
– Paulo Coelho</p>
<p>He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.<br />
– Aeschylus</p>
<p>Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.<br />
– C.S. Lewis</p>
<p>The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That&#8217;s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they&#8217;ll go through the pain no matter what happens.<br />
– Arnold Schwarzenegger</p>
<p>Behind every beautiful thing, there&#8217;s some kind of pain.<br />
– Bob Dylan</p>
<p>Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?<br />
– Mary Manin Morrissey</p>
<p>Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.&#8221;<br />
– C.S. Lewis</p>
<p>When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.<br />
– Henri Nouwen</p>
<p>We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later&#8230; Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.<br />
– Mary Austin</p>
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		<title>Healing Quotes on Forgiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When people hurt us it can be difficult to move on from that. Even when they are sorry or it was unintentional, how can we let go of the bad feelings we had as a result? It helps if we turn to inspirational quotes for guidance in dealing with these situations. &#160; The weak can [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-1504" src="https://spiritual-quotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a7-300x167.png" alt="Forgiveness Quote - Marianne Williamson" width="490" height="273" srcset="https://spiritual-quotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a7-300x167.png 300w, https://spiritual-quotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a7-768x427.png 768w, https://spiritual-quotes.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/a7.png 810w" sizes="(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px" />When people hurt us it can be difficult to move on from that. Even when they are sorry or it was unintentional, how can we let go of the bad feelings we had as a result? It helps if we turn to inspirational quotes for guidance in dealing with these situations.</p>
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<p>The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.</p>
<p>&#8211; Mahatma Gandhi</p>
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<p>Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.</p>
<p>&#8211; Oscar Wilde</p>
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<p>Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.</p>
<p>&#8211; Mishkat Al-masabih</p>
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<p>The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.</p>
<p>&#8211; Honore de Balzac</p>
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<p>To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.</p>
<p>&#8211; C.S. Lewis</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.</p>
<p>&#8211; Arthur Balfour</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>&#8211; Marianne Williamson</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note &#8212; torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.</p>
<p>&#8211; Henry Ward Beecher</p>
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<p>Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.</p>
<p>&#8211; August Wilson</p>
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<p>Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.</p>
<p>&#8211; Desmond Tutu</p>
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<p>I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.</p>
<p>&#8211; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.</p>
<p>&#8211; T. D. Jakes</p>
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<p>My heart was heavy, for its trust had been</p>
<p>Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;</p>
<p>So, turning gloomily from my fellow-men,</p>
<p>One summer Sabbath day I strolled among</p>
<p>The green mounds of the village burial-place;</p>
<p>Where, pondering how all human love and hate</p>
<p>Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,</p>
<p>Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,</p>
<p>And cold hands folded over a still heart,</p>
<p>Pass the green threshold of our common grave,</p>
<p>Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart,</p>
<p>Awed for myself, and pitying my race,</p>
<p>Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave,</p>
<p>Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!</p>
<p>&#8211; A S J Tessimond</p>
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<p>Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.</p>
<p>&#8211; Robert Frost</p>
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		<title>Enough to disarm all hostility</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. &#8211; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.</p>
<p><em>&#8211; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</em></p>
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		<title>Revenge on ourselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. &#8211; Pope</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.</p>
<p><em>&#8211; Pope</em></p>
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		<title>Hope of a better past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past. &#8211; Jack Kornfield</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.</p>
<p><em>&#8211; Jack Kornfield</em></p>
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		<title>Those who can forgive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred. If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive. &#8211; From the Bhagavad Gita</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.<br />
If you want to see the brave, look for those who can forgive.</p>
<p>&#8211; <em>From the</em> <em>Bhagavad Gita</em></p>
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