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Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

We may faint and we may sink _x000D_ Feel the pain and near the brink _x000D_ But the dark begins to shrink _x000D_ When you find the one who knows

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.'

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.

Every soul who comes to earth with a_x000D_ leg or two at birth must wrestle his_x000D_ opponents knowing its not what is, but_x000D_ what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through_x000D_ pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each_x000D_ foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.

It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast true nature.

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'