Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Quotations
Pain
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"
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
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
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.
-Santosh Kalwar
