Pain and joy are like light and darkness; they are two sides of the same medal. They are interdependent and inseparably connected to each other.
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
Quotations
Pain
-Trinley Thaye Dorje "Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.
-Jacqueline Carey
"Kushiel's Chosen"
If carefully seen, when shocked or hurt, if you are able to express your feelings,
you are relieved of it and the same when mistakenly suppressed; then that pain
in its perverted form becomes your destiny.
-Deep Trivedi
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
