The pain of reaching your goal will only last a short while The pain of not trying, will last a lifetime
I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.
What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.
A hundred "no's" are less painful than one insincere "yes."
Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
A pain that pricks the conscience is more effective than a lot of whiplashes.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
He dragged me up. "You're bruised all to hell, your hand is broken, and can you even imagine how much more pain waits for you tonight?" he asked. "Why won't you just learn? Why must you make me keep hurting you?" "I'm not making you do anything, Gisb...
Pain and grief have been kept buried for ages, bred in secrecy and shame, wrapped by an ongoing conspiracy of smiles and well-being. Pain and grief are most healing and ecstatic emotions. Yes, sure, they can be hard, yet what makes them most devastat...
Love has an extreme capacity to offer everything we need but not without extreme pain. Anyone who tastes the sweet fruit -joy of love, deserves to taste the bitter fruit -pain of separation. Nobody should taste the bitter before the sweet. It means n...
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have l...
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss a form and dimension so that it might be loss and not simply a hopeless haunting. It can do these things for one person, or it can do them ...
[W]e wouldn't want to read a book about a perfect character who never struggles with character flaws, a difficult past, or interpersonal conflict. Writers can powerfully connect with readers when they venture to these thin places of pain and brokenne...
Love is a Dance set on the stage of Forgiveness and Grace.
