I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things
The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.
There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.
Grief is itself a medicine.
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
One pain is lessened by another's anguish.
The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Pain is never permanent.
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