Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them over and over again, wo….

I'm like everybody else..

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth..

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away un….

If you want to take dance to an extra level, you have to be physically fit. You also have to put the years of work in. If there's no pain, there's no….

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same..

Everything is true Everything anybody has ever thought.

In India, [in] the great documents like [the] Upanishads in eighth century B.C., you find some of the wisest [women] making great, learned speeches a….

So, it's good to be here, wherever I am..

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed..

And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?.

There is a pleasure that is born of pain..

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence..

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not….

time past is not time gone, it is time accumulated with the host resembling the character in the fairytale who was joined along the route by more and….

I'll do everything I've got to do to get on base, and I've been doing that. I'm happy with it..

Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled b….

I hope we have American-topias..

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion..

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get..

Power is intoxicating..