There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
"The Book of Disquiet"
Quotations
Pain
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
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
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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"
When you let go of past pain, believe in yourself, and follow your dreams—you can find true happiness!
-Casi McLean
