Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in hones….

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, m….

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain..

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it..

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt..

They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove ….

Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise..

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help..

It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing..

The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act….

Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it..

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain..

Here ah am in the junky's limbo; too sick tae sleep, too tired tae stay awake. A twilight zone ay the senses where nothing's real except the crushing….

Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones peopl….

Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred acre wood to play in with ….

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the p….

Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat….

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And….

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate ou….

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fa….

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer ….