Painful Thoughts Quotes:

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

- Byron Katie

source: Twitter post from Jan 26, 2014

topic: Painful, Painful Thoughts

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

- Lilith Saintcrow

topic: Jumping, Relax, Another Day, Painful Thoughts

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. “If I feel peaceful,” they say, “why would I bother taking action at all?” My answer is “Because that's what love does.” To think that we need sadness or outrage to motivate us to do what's right is insane. As if the clearer and happier you get, the less kind you become. As if when someone finds freedom, she just sits around all day with drool running down her chin. My experience is the opposite. Love is action.

- Byron Katie

topic: Running, Sadness, Thinking, Katie, Painful Thoughts

Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Angel, Hands, Long, Painful Thoughts, Guardian Angel

This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Morning, Lying, Dark, Painful Memories, Painful Thoughts

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

topic: Destiny, Birth Place, Ties, Painful Thoughts, Birthplace

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

- Plutarch

topic: Memories, May, Painful, Painful Thoughts