Pain

"It’s not that I don’t suffer, it’s that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one’s soul and as a permanent scar across one’s view of existence."

"Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through."

"We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change."

"Do not run away from your challenges. You must endure and overcome each challenge."

"My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds."

"I should love her like there is an ache that won't go away unless I'm with her."

"One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"The more you try to protect yourself from love, the more pain you bring to yourself and those that love you"

"... some wounds refuse the remedy of time."

"This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch."

"When someone comes around at that dreary moment, when all hope was lost, and thorns emerged. And that fellow, walks on that thorn just to cross to your side, to bear the pains for your sake, to bleed, to self-destroy himself, just to protect you. He places you above his priorities, and doesn't give a damn whatsoever taunt he receives, his foremost desire is to make sure you are save, feel loved and cared for, and that's the true definition of love."

"Whoever you are. Where ever you are. With whom so ever you are & were. Whatever may be your past. What so ever may be the truth. I will wait for you & I will fade away just like a daffodil when storm comes."

"It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession"

"When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray."

"Difficulties of life are valuable opportunities for self-discovery."

"You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."

"Still, his apartment has that dreamlike qualityof feeling like home though I know it’s not. Not mine anymore — but how many people get to visit the past without hurting anything?To come back and drink the same coffeefrom the same never-quite-clean cup?"

"Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country."