The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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 and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
