But there was nothing but the cold, hard truth that loving someone and being loved back was only the beginning, not the end, of all the pain.
This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.
But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory, was the knowledge of hardship and hunger and endurance and pain.
But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
❤Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering
People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.
When the guy kissed her, Cassidy felt a stab of pain that was close to physical, and therefore within the penumbra of hurts he told himself he could bear.
I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death.
In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is to be banished from humanity.
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
The pain of hunger beneath everything. At the end of all love-making, the dreamless sleep after the orgasm, which is like death.
Please just tell me where you are. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain.
And I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.
