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"
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
