Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward..

She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it.

Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord..

I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me o….

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my….

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs and suffer such indignit….

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep goin….

People say that bad memories cause the most pain, but it's actually the good ones that drive you insane..

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner ….

America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You mu….

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain..

A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure..

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, tr….

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result..

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains..

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farme….

If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation is….

In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same s….

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble..

For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself w….

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course..