Pain

"Pain is like a healing emotional fever."

"Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt."

"The body protects itself, and the same happens in the mind. It occurs sluggishly and imperfectly, a bad job done by indifferent craftsmen, but within minutes an accretion of defence mechanisms starts to form around the trauma, blunting its edges, eventually sealing it away inside scar tissue. Like a sliver of glass buried deep in a cut, the event will never go away, and often a movement will cause it to nudge a nerve ending and burn like fire for a while. However much it hurts when that happens, the last thing you want."

"The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti"

"Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more."

"Hold fast to your faith. Keep your hope in the Lord. Embrace the love of God."

"We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours."

"The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come."

"Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could."

"I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain."

"When we encounter a friend who's depressed or afraid, we automatically try to take that distress away and to cheer the person up. While we may be operating with the best of intentions, this Band-Aid approach only reinforces the condition. Unless people experience their pain completely and begin to undrstand it, they will not only fail to overcome it, they'll also lose the opportunity of using it to advance their own growth. Pain can get you somewhere, and that somewhere can be a life-enhancing experience. We all tend to forget that pain can signal change. Alleviating the symptoms of pain in someone, without helping them to get at its underlying source, robs them of an important to for self-exploration. It's also a way of placating that reinforces the person'S need to cave in and succumb to another. This attitude undermines healthy character development and contributes to psychospiritual, moral, and ultimately social decay."

"One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate."

"The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming... Dead silence. Literally dead."

"I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us."

"Love, is sometimes a simpler form of slowly dying, it's like a bullet that ricochets off time's walls of desire, waiting to hit that picture perfect heart of regrets."

"The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires."

"Few things are as painful as the unfulfilled desire to be near to another you love."

"Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you."

"Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow."

"You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!"