It Hurts Quotes - Page 25

• Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Hurt, Buddhism

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• And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being truly is by describing his imperfections. The perfect human being is uninteresting - the Buddha who leaves the world, you know. It is the imperfections of life that are lovable. And when the writer sends a dart of the true word, it hurts. But it goes with love. This is what Mann called "erotic irony," the love for that which you are killing with your cruel, analytical word.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hurt, Writing, Perfect

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.3, Anchor

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• ...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Running, Hurt, Long

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.85, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Give, but give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Hurt

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• I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality.

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Hurt

  Twitter post from May 17, 2015

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• How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Mean, Giving

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.97, Image

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• Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Hurt, Pregnancy

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Riding Shotgun”, p.151, Bantam

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• At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hurt, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.15, Penguin

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Notebook, Goodbye

  "The Notebook". Book by Nicholas Sparks, 1996.

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• Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Love You, Mean

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Love Is, Wish

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• Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Life, Change, Travel

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• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Pain

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• Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

  Harriet Morgan

  Strength, Strong Women, Hurt

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• So often it hurts us that we are not able to focus in our prayers. Remember, the more you focus on Allah outside your salah, the easier it will be to focus on Him inside your salah. What occupies you in salah, is what occupies you outside of salah. Try to fill your mind and heart with Allah as much as you can throughout your day. Talk to Him, make duaa to Him constantly. This will build your personal relationship with Him. Then, going to salah will be like coming home to an old friend.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

  Nicole Williams

  Hurt, Cutting, Tree

  Nicole Williams (2014). “Lost & Found”, p.424, Nicole Williams

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• And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

  Johnny Depp

  Hurt, Want Something, Want

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