Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
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
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
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.
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
