Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
If carefully seen, when shocked or hurt, if you are able to express your feelings,
you are relieved of it and the same when mistakenly suppressed; then that pain
in its perverted form becomes your destiny.
-Deep Trivedi
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione