Louise Bourgeois Quotes

Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.

Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.

I try to go through it [emotional pain]; understanding is going to take me to a better place. And I do hot yoga.

Lately I’d begun carrying pain amulets in my bag, like some people have breath mints.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

I am the captain of my pain.

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.