The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.
-Neil Simon
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
Isn't it funny that we never look into the lives of the great people whom we
worship, to dispel the miseries from our life and see, how much pain they have
endured in their life. The truth is, we fail to understand one simple and basic
fact that as long as there is life, there will be pain; no matter however great the
person may be... Their greatness is not in having a life without hardship but
because of their ability to remain cheerful even when surrounded by miseries.
-Deep Trivedi
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
