Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Quotations
Pain
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
