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• Pain: The feelings that you have in your body when you have been hurt or when you are ill/sick. Oxford Dictionary
• Pain: A feeling of physical suffering caused by injury or illness. Cambridge Dictionary
• Pain: Emotional or mental suffering. Cambridge Dictionary
• Pain: A localized or generalized unpleasant bodily sensation or complex of sensations that causes mild to severe physical discomfort and emotional distress and typically results from bodily disorder (such as injury or disease). Merriam Webster
• Physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc. A distressing sensation in a particular part of the body. Mental or emotional suffering or torment. Dictionary.com
• Physical pain,  Suffering,  Healing,  Illness,  Cancer

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Acute pain is often an important message from the body that we must obey

• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen. Shakti Gawain
• Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey. Marcel Proust
• 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. S. Lewis
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller
• These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi
• The body never lies. Martha Graham
• Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
• Those things that hurt, instruct. Benjamin Franklin
• Pain is a message asking for our help. Gerald Epstein
• Since the obvious purpose of pain, misery, and suffering is to tell you something is wrong, fix it, change it, reform, improve, get help; if you don’t have the strength to do it, you are stuck with the pain. William Glasser
• Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.  Ally Carter
• Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts. King, Stephen
• Pain (any pain–emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. Peter McWilliams
• Your pain is a great teacher. Learn from it and be healed. Bernie Siegel
• Pain is not “the enemy.” Pain is the body’s naturally evolved way of letting us know that something needs attention and can play a vital role in maintaining physical well-being. Bodhipaksa
• Pain,  Suffering

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Chronic pain, however, serves less of a purpose

• Not all pain is bad. In fact, in some situations, pain can actually be helpful. It can warn you that a stove is too hot or be an early warning sign of a potentially serious illness or a tumor. Chronic pain however, usually serves no useful purpose. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
• Pain is the body’s alarm system. It tells us when something is wrong. It is very helpful when it works well. But sometimes the alarm never shuts off. And sometimes the alarm system breaks—it sends signals even when all is well. This is called chronic pain. Stephen R. Braun
• Chronic pain affects at least 100 million American adults; more than the total affected by heart disease, cancer, and diabetes combined. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D

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Pain can have deeply negative effect on us if we let it

• Excruciating agony makes me cranky. Brandon Mull
• Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. George Orwell
• Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Siri Hustvedt
• The greatest evil is physical pain. Augustine
• Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment. Will Rogers
• The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
• When you are in pain, nothing else seems to matter. All of your attention is focused with a laser- like intensity on the sensations within your body. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D

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Chronic pain, in particular, can lead to stress and even depression

• It is not uncommon for those who suffer from chronic pain to feel stressed and depressed at times. For some people, the stress and depression resulting from chronic pain can become consuming and can even worsen and prolong the pain. Increased pain can, in turn, lead to increased stress and depression, creating a cycle of depression and pain that can be difficult to break. William W. Deardorff, PhD, ABPP
• Pain upsets and destroys the nature of the person who feels it. Aristotle
• Pain can “throw your whole life out of whack. It’s not just the feeling of pain that’s the problem — for instance, chronic back pain is more than just a pain in the back. Over time, it can spill over and affect every single aspect of your life. It can overwhelm you. Penney Cowan
• Stress,  Despair,  Depression

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How we approach, think about and manage pain is all important

• Pain is important; how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. Audre Lorde

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Managing chronic pain requires several different approaches

• The goal of pain management is to increase function and quality of life while reducing your sense of suffering. Alison Conte
• Successful pain management usually takes several different approaches, rather than one “magic bullet. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
• Studies show that passive methods–using only rest, hot/cold packs, and medications to treat pain – are less effective and are linked to more chronic pain and disability than active treatments (exercise, for example). Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
• Be educated, responsible, and confident. Chronic pain can almost always be managed. Stephen R. Braun

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Realise that much of our suffering from physical pain comes from mental suffering

• Bodily discomfort has three components: The unpleasant physical sensation itself (pain, aching muscles.) Our emotional reaction to that discomfort (anger, frustration, fear).  The thoughts that are triggered by the discomfort, such as, “This pain will never go away,” Note that two of the three components that make up our experience of bodily discomfort are mental in origin! These two mental components are often referred to as “mental suffering.”  Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• Although your pain is real, it controls your emotional being as much as it does your physical being. They are connected in so many ways.  Penney Cowan
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Do not fight and resist your pain, for that only intensifies the suffering

• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is…The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds. Dan Millman
• Suffering: the sense that things should be different than they are. Wayne Liquorman
• The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering. Ram Dass
• Pain is the sensations of discomfort that may be unavoidable; suffering is the ways we react to pain that just makes it worse. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Wishing that something were so does not make it so, and our frustrated desires do nothing but add mental suffering to our physical distress. Bodhipaksa
• Non-resistance,  Acceptance,  Surrender

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Instead, accept your pain as best you can

• If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. Stephen Levine
• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
• … take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
• The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain.  By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it.  We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.  Matthew Fox
• Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain.  It comes in waves like a tide, and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.  With a deep breath–it has to be as deep as the pain–one reaches a kind of inner freedom from pain, as though the pain were not yours, but your body’s.  The spirit lays the body on the altar. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• If you want to end your suffering, enter your pain. Robert Augustus Master
• The mind, quite understandably, tends to see pain as something that is undesirable and therefore to be pushed away. This pushing away shows in the body as physical tension in and around the area of pain, causing additional discomfort and even intensifying the original pain. It’s as if, having accidentally touched a hot stove, we were to react by trying to push the stove away. Bodhipaksa
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Physically relax and flood your pain with mindful awareness

• Mindfulness is much more than simply being aware. We can be aware of pain without being at all mindful of it. Mindfulness is a particular kind of awareness, which is purposeful, focused, curious, and rooted in our moment-by- moment experience. Bodhipaksa
• Investigate the process you call ‘pain’. You will notice it is in fact a mass of sensations, not a thing. Get to know it as actual, felt experience, rather than getting too caught up with thoughts about it. Notice how it is always changing from one sensation to another, no matter how dense and solid it may feel. Vidyamala
• Move towards the pain. See if you can soften around any resistance you may feel towards it. This is counter-intuitive but if you try to ignore it or push it away, it will just scream louder. Use the breath to help with this. Vidyamala
• Our habitual reaction to physical discomfort is some form of resistance and aversion, such as frustration or anger. By practicing mindfulness, we can counter that habitual response with one that’s more skilful. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• We can calmly and gently examine the actual physical sensation. It’s not a solid block of discomfort. We may feel waves of sensations, some of which may even be pleasant. We may notice some heat, some pulsating, some tingling. Using mindfulness to examine physical sensations reveals their ever-changing nature. This helps break up the sense that our whole being is only the discomfort. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• Bring your attention to the area of pain. What do you notice? Is the pain sharp or dull? Burning? Stabbing? Fiery? Clenching? Is it moving, or does it stay in one place? How deeply does it go into your body? Get very curious about the changing set of bodily sensations. Susan Smalley
• In mindfulness meditation we observe more than just any pain that may happen to be present. We become aware of the whole physical body, emotions, and thoughts, and of how each of these interacts with the others. One thing we can then begin to see is that although pain is present in our experience it isn’t the whole of our experience. Mindfulness gives us a sense of the physical and mental “landscape” within which our pain is experienced, and which helps to give a sense of perspective to our experience of it. Bodhipaksa
• Relaxation,  Mindfulness,  Awareness

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Watch your pain go past you

• You’ve got this moment of pain. Is it coming at you or going away?  Almost always we have this sub conscious sense that the pain is coming at us.  And we feel like we’re being blasted with pain.  We’re on the receiving end.  And all it takes is a change in your perception.  To see that as you centre yourself in each moment of pain, you’re seeing it going away, going away.  You are not in the line of fire.  You’re not receiving the pain.  You’re watching it go past, go past.  Just that change in your perception in the present moment is enough to keep you ok for the present moment. Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Observation

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In a relaxed state, be mindul too of your mental attitude to your pain

• Notice if you have an attitude toward the pain. Do you hate it, fear it, resent it, blame yourself for it? Can you notice how it is that you feel or think about the pain? Do you feel any accompanying body sensation like a clutching feeling in your gut or vibration in your chest? Notice this reaction, breathe, and let it be there. There is nothing wrong with a reaction. Susan Smalley
• Attitude,  Interpretation

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Bring an attitude of love and kindness to your pain

• Kindness and gentleness are crucial. Treat pain as you’d treat an injured loved one. See if you can find a tender attitude of heart. Vidyamala
• Bring an attitude of kindness toward the pain sensations, even though they may be unpleasant. Your body isn’t purposefully making you suffer. Treat it as you’d treat a child in pain. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• The development of loving kindness can also be used internally, by cultivating loving kindness for painful experiences so that we can accept them as a part of life. Wishing our pain well can be a powerfully healing experience in which we let go of inner tensions and barriers on a deep level and come to see that our pain is a part of us, and a part of us moreover that is greatly in need of cherishing and love. Bodhipaksa
• Love,  Kindness

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Mindfulness can help you to let go of the negative stories and thoughts you attach to your physical pain

• Becoming mindfully aware of the stories we spin about our physical discomfort quiets and steadies the mind so that the “mud” settles and we can see the thoughts more clearly. Then we have a choice. We can continue to blindly believe them or we can calmly assess their validity. Toni Bernhard, J.D.
• As long as we define ourselves in terms of our pain and our problems, we will never be free from them. Eckhart Tolle
• The biggest difficulty in working with pain is not the pain itself; it is how we react to it. With mindfulness, you can learn to see how your mental reactions to suffering function and how you can avoid being so caught in them. Susan Smalley
• Experiencing pain can often trigger unhelpful and negative thoughts… “This is never going to end,” “This is just going to get worse,” or “I can’t bear this.” In turn, these thoughts lead to anxiety, depression or anger, because we tend to believe the stories we think when we are unmindful, and this further adds to our suffering. The practice of Mindfulness includes becoming aware of our thoughts and seeing that our thoughts are indeed just thoughts and are not facts.  This can be quite a liberating discovery.  Richard Hanson
• The practice of mindfulness is particularly effective because it “decouples” the physical sensations of pain from mental and emotional processes that heighten suffering. Pain comes to be seen as “just another sensation” and the fear of pain is significantly reduced. Bodhipaksa
• Mindfulness,  Letting go of stories of self

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Learn to become more focused in the moment

• One of the worst things you can do is think about how long you’ve been in pain and how long you anticipate being in pain. You’ve got just this breath right now. You’ve got just this experience of pain right here.  That’s it. That’s not more than you can handle.  Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Just notice, what is the experience right here, right now? And it’s manageable.  And if you think it’s not manageable, look into it further.  Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• This is the trick to endurance. You don’t think about how much endurance you’re developing, and you don’t think about how long you’ve been enduring or how much longer you have to endure. You just look at what you’ve got right here, right now at this very moment.  And learn how to manage this very moment. Thanissaro Bhikkhu
• Live in the present

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Make use of pain medication too if it helps

• Medications that relieve pain are called analgesics. Analgesics are the mainstay of pain management. But many non- drug treatments can also be used with medications. Combining such treatments may reduce pain intensity, boost your ability to cope, enhance your comfort and improve your quality of life. Stephen R. Braun
• I think it’s misguided that so many people regard the taking of pain medication as a sign of weakness. We’re told “no pain…no gain” or “push through the pain.” I suspect that people who offer this type of advice have never suffered from chronic pain. Toni Bernhard, J.D.

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Use exercise to help with strength, flexibility and mood

• Try conservative exercise. Have you done stretching? Yoga or Pilates are wonderful exercises that don’t put excessive strain on your joints. They give you a great work out and help keep you fit with relaxed muscles. Maryellen Smith
• Exercise is truly the most active part of self-management, although it works best when it’s started gradually and properly paced. Exercise builds strength and flexibility and causes a natural “antidepressant” effect–which is important as many people with chronic pain become depressed. Need more motivation? If you don’t exercise, you can experience stiffer joints, weak muscles, less stamina or “staying power,” and lower pain tolerance. Evelyn Corsini, M.S.W
• Stay flexible. Talk to your doctor about stretching exercises you can do every day. Yoga can be a great way to become more flexible. Just be careful to stretch gently. If it hurts, you’re going too far. Stephen R. Braun
• Your brain releases chemicals known as endorphins during and after exercise that act as natural mood boosters. At the same time, these endorphins block pain signals. Exercise also works on other levels to reduce pain. By strengthening your muscles, increasing your mobility, improving your range of motion, increasing your endurance, and improving your cardio health, your body’s resistance to pain will increase naturally. Valerie Johnston
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Manage stress in your life for anxiety makes pain worse

• Check your stress and anxiety levels. Anxiety will make pain worse. Try anything that reduces stress to normal levels. Try doing breathing exercises. Relaxation therapy is also helpful. Dr. Maryellen Smith
• Chronic stress or anxiety can make pain worse. It can cause your body to continue to hold muscles tighter than they need to be. At the same time, your shallow breaths bring less fresh oxygen to those overworked muscles. As you know if you clench your fist or hunch your shoulders for any length of time, tight muscles contribute to pain. Evelyn Corsini
• Stress,  Anxiety

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Practice relaxation techniques such as breathing, meditation or biofeedback

• By practicing stress reduction techniques such as deep breathing, meditation, and guided imagery, you can relax both your body and mind. As you learn to live a more relaxed, stress-free life, you will progressively be able manage your pain more effectively. Knowing how to access a mental escape will be of great benefit for moving out of your pain and into a more peaceful state of mind. Valerie Johnston
• There are a number of techniques that you can learn to do for yourself to help reduce the pain, which will make you less anxious, such as relaxation exercises, biofeedback, and self-hypnosis. Do whatever feels most comfortable to you. Sign up for classes in meditation, yoga, or tai chi (also called “moving meditation”), or find a trained biofeedback therapist. Practice deep, slow breathing, or go for a long walk or bike ride. Evelyn Corsini
• Meditation is any method of focusing and calming the mind. It need not have any religious or spiritual component. Several medical centers now use meditation to help patients manage chronic pain. The techniques vary, but all involve calming the body, being aware of oneself, and focusing attention. Some scientific studies have shown “dramatic” reductions in pain among patients who meditate regularly. Stephen R. Braun
• Biofeedback is a therapy that uses a variety of relaxation techniques along with instruments that monitor the individual’s responses to a particular therapy. After several treatments, biofeedback trains the body to consciously regulate autonomic functions such as heart rate and blood pressure.  Over time, it can train an individual to control their own pain. Stephen R. Braun
• Relaxation,  Meditation,  Breathing

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Keep a pain journal

• The more you understand about your pain and its particular “triggers,” the more you can play a role in blocking them. Kevin L. Zacharoff, M.D
• Keep a diary of when your pain changes and what kinds of stress could be triggering your pain. This exercise can redirect your focus from the pain to the elements in your life that affect your pain. Identifying stress triggers or emotional triggers that affect the pain will give you the opportunity for better pain relief through avoiding or eliminating these stress triggers. William W. Deardorff, PhD
• Keep a daily journal. Record the level of pain and your activities so you and your doctor can figure out what contributes to “bad days.” Shelley Adams
• To effectively treat your pain, your GP needs to know how you’ve been feeling between visits. Keeping a diary or journal of your daily “pain score” will help you track your pain. At the end of each day, note your pain level on the 1 to 10 pain scale. Also, note what activities you did that day. Take this log book to every GP visit; it will give your GP a good understanding of how you’re living with chronic pain and your physical functioning level. WebMD

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Connect with others in pain through support groups

• In the country of pain, we are each alone. May Sarton
• Support groups or networking with others who have some of the same problems can help you feel less isolated. Maryellen Smith
• Connect with others. It can be hard for others to understand what it feels like to be in chronic pain. That’s why it can be so helpful to find people who can “share your pain.” Chronic pain support groups can be found in almost every city. You can also find online support groups. People can share their feelings and swap tips that have helped them manage their pain. Stephen R. Braun
• Connect with other chronic pain sufferers. Simply being able to share what you are going through with other people who can relate to your feelings is a great way to cope with your condition. Support groups for people living with chronic pain also provide an excellent educational tool. Learning how others manage their pain may give you insight in how to manage your own. Valerie Johnston
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Find outlets to distract yourself from your pain

• Try not to focus on your pain. The amount of time you spend thinking about pain has a lot to do with how much discomfort you feel. Those who dwell on their pain usually say their pain is worse than those who don’t dwell on it. One way to take your mind off pain is to distract yourself from pain. Focus on something outside your body, perhaps a hobby or something of personal interest, to take your mind off your discomfort.  Maryellen Smith
• Once you have gently acknowledged the pain you can then broaden out your field of awareness to look for any pleasure that is also going on in the moment. Notice experiences such as sun on the skin, being with a loved one, noticing flowers by the bed etc. There will always be something pleasurable in your experience, no matter how subtle. Let the pain be just one of several things you are aware of in the moment. Vidyamala
• Find ways to distract yourself from pain so you enjoy life more. When you focus on pain, it makes it worse rather than better. Instead, find something you like doing – an activity that keeps you busy and thinking about things besides your pain. You might not be able to avoid pain, but you can take control of your life.  WebMD
• Because we have a one-track mind, we can only think of one thing at a time. If you are immersed in a song, a hobby, or a rich mental image, you are not thinking of pain. By redirecting your thoughts, even if only briefly, you have for that moment reduced your sense of suffering. That moment became a good part of your day. Alison Conte

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Get plenty of sleep

• There’s very good data that suggests that disturbed sleep can worsen your pain. It’s a vicious cycle: pain prevents you from sleeping, and not sleeping makes the pain worse. Thomas Roth, PhD
• Sleep,  Rest and renewal

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Lose weight if necessary

• Lose weight if you need to. Extra body weight strains joints, muscles, and your back. Even losing just 10 pounds can make a difference. Stephen R. Braun
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Improve your posture

• Learn how to lift, sit, and stand. Keep your back straight when lifting. Use your legs, not your back. Keep your back straight when sitting and standing. If you use a computer, be sure that the position of your arms and hands is relaxed and well- supported.  Stephen R. Braun

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Ensure a healthy diet

• Poor diet is one of the key culprits in causing inflammation and pain. Individuals who are overweight and/or malnourished are much more prone to chronic pain. Adding a variety of vegetables, fresh fruit, whole grains, omega-3 fatty acids, beans, peas, nuts, and other healthy food choices to your diet, while reducing unhealthy foods, can reduce inflammation and pain. Proper nutrition in combination with exercise will result in a stronger body that is better able to combat pain and a number of health problems that can lead to chronic pain. Valerie Johnston
• Diet,  Health

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As hard as it can be, try to think of your pain in a positive light

• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle
• Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore
• Everything can be taken from a man but the last of human freedoms, the right to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – the right to choose one’s own way. Viktor Frankl
• Positivity,  Optimism,  Hope

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1.  The pain will eventually go

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. Lance Armstrong
• Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other. Laurence Sterne
• Pain is never permanent. Teresa of Avila
• Endure and persist, this pain will turn good by and by. Ovid
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2.  Pain will make you appreciate your health all the more when you are well

• Pain adds rest unto pleasure and teaches the luxury of health. Martin Tupper
• Health,  Appreciation

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3.  Your pain is not a punishment

• Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward. Pema Chodron

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4.  Pain is part of the body’s way of curing itself

• Pain is weakness leaving the body. Tera Lynn Childs
• Pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For this hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen… Kahlil Gibran
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5.  Pain is a sign you’re alive

• Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you’re alive. Robert Jordan
• Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it. Jim Butcher
• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. Lord Byron
• Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. William Faulkner
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6.  Your pain can make you courageous and strong

• When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.  Wyne Muller
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran
• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. John Sterling
• Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
• No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn
• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. Charles Kingsley
• Courage,  Strength

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7.  Suffering, including physical suffering, has gifts to offer if you know where to look

• Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allen Poe
• Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies… Rumi
• Suffering,  Adversity

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• Most people don’t mind suffering in silence as long as everyone knows about it.
• A little pain never hurt anyone.
• A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. C. Fields
• Aerobics is a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps. Jerry Smith
• Egotism is the anaesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
• Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt. Theo Fleury
• I can handle pain until it hurts.
• I see the pain on your face when you say the word intellectual because it has so many syllables in it. Clive James
• I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner
• I’m not into working out; my philosophy: No pain, no pain. Carol Leifer
• If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine… look into that second, less painful career. Richard Jeni
• It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Anton Lavey
• Looking to any angry, anxious, or otherwise stressed emotional state to help you sort out the pain you’re in is like trying to organize your monthly bills by throwing them into a blender. Guy Finley
• Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson
• Pain is only temporary no matter how long it lasts. Ray Lewis
• Pain: An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another. Ambrose Bierce
• Sitting still is a pain in the ass. Noah Levine
• Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that’s both is dental. Ogden Nash
• The pain goes away on payday. Larry Fine
• They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth; but they can if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for 14 hours. Jo’ Brand
• This type of injury is very painful. Especially when it hurts. Jean Perron
• Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.
• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
• You must have taken great pains sir; you could not naturally have been so very stupid. Samuel Johnson

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