Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the larg….

When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being. See, I don't think we were cr….

If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it..

Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back aga….

If in doubt, do not pain. Inflict as little pain as possible. Look for alternatives to punishments, not only alternative punishments.

A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear g….

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain..

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel..

Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only t….

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my fr….

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being..

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of p….

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't bee….

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can ban….

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love co….

Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everythi….

Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. ….

It's a complicated thing, knowing how much pain my father caused in my life and the lives of others whom I love, yet still holding love for him in my….

Life, Steffi has learned, carries on around the pain, making room for it, absorbing it until it becomes part of the daily fabric, wrapping itself aro….

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on ….

In my 20s I was in constant pain from undiagnosed endometriosis. With no prospect of a cure, I decided I needed a career - writing - that could accom….