The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
You’d think that silence would be peaceful. But really, it’s painful.
-David Levithan
"Will Grayson, Will Grayson"
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
-Barbara Kingsolver
"Animal Dreams"
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.
-Jeb Dickerson
