Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, ha….

That sweet sleep which medicines all pain..

The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important th….

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill..

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love n….

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against th….

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends..

I do Pilates because it's important for me to have a healthy back when I'm 70 so I'm not hunched over and in pain. That's more important to me than b….

Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway. Over and over..

Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience whi….

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of ru….

Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of ….

I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want….

I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect - stranger or not, but respectful con….

Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fund….

If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you….

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created wit….

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed ….

Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is j….

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work..

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in..