The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and ….

Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the….

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned..

Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature..

The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung to this single, illusory bel….

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of won….

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life..

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct ….

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it..

pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more..

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory..

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and fo….

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writi….

Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first gr….

"You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary said. There must hav….

In a practical sense, pain kept me from sitting down as much, so that sometimes I would have to stand to write. Not that I would necessarily have got….

Genius is the art of taking pains.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and….

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of u….

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though th….