Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous