Masochists are people that have pleasure confused with pain. In a world that has television confused with entertainment, doritoes confused with food,….

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you..

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and ….

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted a….

Think of a rock polisher, one of those drums, goes round and round, rolls twenty-four/seven, full of water and rocks and gravel. Grinding it all up. ….

My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pain….

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion..

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, yo….

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job..

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain..

What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?.

I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life, I might have disliked them becau….

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain..

Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. some people are better at hiding it than others..

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you we….

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter..

The way to live in the present is to remember that "This too shall pass." When you experience joy, remembering that "This too shall pass" helps you ….

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it..

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the cour….

I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even thoug….