The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
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
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain and joy are like light and darkness; they are two sides of the same medal. They are interdependent and inseparably connected to each other.
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"