Deepak Chopra Quotes

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

Nothing is painful in and of itself. Pain is a result of wrong thought. It is an error in thinking.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

I told myself – as I’ve told myself before – that the body shuts down when the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn’t slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.

PAIN, n. 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.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it.