Pain

"We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit."

"I shall overcome any obscuration."

"Don't allow unforgiveness to make you unhappy."

"May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation."

"Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful."

"God is a great healer."

"Hope is sure and steadfast trust."

"When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain."

"But these are small troubles, people will say. Yes, but they are drops which wear hollows in the rock."

"What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?"

"Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose."

"Because how could he have done this?How could he have chosen to leave me here all alone?"

"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God."

"That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love."

"There are two things that may happen to a person: the first is that you become so soft that no one and nothing can break you, and the second is that you become so hard that nothing and no one can break you. Either way you go, the path will be very painful. But herein is the great sadness of it all: that anyone must try to become something that cannot be broken (whether the soft or the hard). Why must we be born into a world where we must spend our lives struggling to become unbreakable?"

"I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again."

"2a.m and a ceiling stained with question marks."

"Forgive means for get the hurt and give love."

"Happiness isn’t about pretending there’s no pain. It’s about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience."

"I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world."