Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Quotations
Pain
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
