The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
Quotations
Pain
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.
-Anthony Liccione
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
-Kenji Miyazawa
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
-Jeremy Aldana
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada 133"
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"
