Pain

"Keep your expectations high, Not because you are better than anyone else, but because you have experienced enough pain; to realise, you won't settle anymore."

"The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time passes in the smallest of pieces, and pieces still smaller than those. This is how you count a life. This is how you go through it. Each second of hurt is a second that's already passed, one you never have to go through again. I have counted in pieces that small, when walking from the bed to the fridge seemed an insurmountable goal. I have counted my breaths, my steps, my eye-blinks, my hiccups, the tiny pulse in my thumb. And when I started getting tattooed, two of the things I used to need were gone: to write on myself, and to find irrelevant things to count. A second of intense pain is the most profound thing you can live through. And another, and another, and another, and then you know what it is to feel, and to struggle through that feeling one small agonizing increment at a time, and if you know that, you know what it is to live with mental illness."

"When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength."

"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."

"Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free."

"Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain."

"It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value."

"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."

"Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo."

"The hardest thing of all is when pain is hidden behind a mask of calm."

"I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically."

"Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion."

"There is a song from this old movie called Arth where a man asks awoman, “You are smiling so much, there must be a deep pain that you'rehiding.” I wonder what your deep pains are and I wonder how I havefailed you."

"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

"The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry."

"And the ultimate question remains, To live, is it a blessing or the punishment itself ?"

"Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realise that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no option but to change, and the great struggle, the Jihad, would begin."

"Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You’re giving a gift. You’re helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They’ll become real."

"Love is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without intention. Fear is not possession, it is acceptance of everything without mention. The act of loving your fear, to nurture this insecurity for a greater purpose, is to accept the reality of ones expression."

"She was telling me that I had a life of disappointment before me if I continued to love him as I did. A love that is too strong can turn poisonous and bring great unhappiness. And then, what is the remedy? Can you unlearn your heart's desire? Can you stop loving someone? Easier to drown yourself; easier to take the lover's leap."