We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Quotations
Pain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
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"
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 is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!!
-Anonymous
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
