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.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
-Charlie Chaplin
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
-Dante Alighieri
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
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa