There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Quotations
Pain
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
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"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
