THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ME AND YOUWhen I hold a rose,I see the soft, velvety petalsand smile, becausetucked betweenthose precious petalsis a special gift -the one of a fragrance,pure and sweet.When you hold a rose,you see...

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.

I know my pain threshold. I’m fine, … It’s come down to that point where you got to suck up a lot of stuff.

She knows the truth can cause a sharp pain behind your eyes and that love sometimes feels like a fist around your throat.

Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother’s death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious...

Pain is all relative.

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It’s a pain in the ass.

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laugh across the water. Laughing at the girl,at the guys, at George,at me sucking my bleeding thumb, at the captain back at...

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

Have we become so defensive that we cannot even tolerate a kind act?

She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened...

Ever hurt so bad you want to scream … or scream so much it hurts.

my enemies don’t scared me .. but the people who say I love you

Language … has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

The past, rich with it’s pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

The problem isn’t that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.

I almost never cry, and it’s something I don’t like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I’m in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it...

Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action – solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no...

Pain moves us forward, changing us into something else, something we need to be.

Then she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think ‘this must be heaven’. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain – which started a fraction of a second...

Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real”.

It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

In every guilty man, there is an element of innocence. This is what makes any absolute condemnation revolting. We do not think enough about pain” Albert Camus

The cross, therefore, is always ready; it awaits you everywhere. No matter where you may go, you cannot escape it, for wherever you go you take yourself with you and shall always find yourself. Turn...

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who’ suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I’m talking about.

Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

When you feel life is tough.. take a trip around a nearby hospital and all your worries will start looking smaller.

I feel like we have to deal with things, so we realize change! Change comes after pain and pain comes after truth. Truth is hurtful.

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

He’s pain-free so we’re fairly confident that he’ll certainly be right by the first round, but hopefully be able to get one or two practice matches in.

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.

The world now follows a zoo culture where in the weaker ones are caged and the stronger ones watch playfully –

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.

I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is.

Caidi to Jacin: “Do you know why I love you?”Jacin: “No.”Caidi: “Because you love so big, even when you don’t want to. Because you can’t help it. And because you need it back, but you...

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed...

I’ve read de Sade, and Anaïs Nun, and Gravity’s Rainbow, and the Story of O. First you have to have pleasure—then pain.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way...

I wish there was some method to transform all the agony in my imprudent heart to an energy source. It would have lit up the world till eternity!!!

I was not looking for HIM, he was just always there, the little BOY! I have not seen HIM, because I did not want to see, but HE was standing next to my bed every...

Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay, they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.

I went closer this time and touched him. He let out a deafening shriek, as if something had pierced into his heart. I held his hand and sat there, admiring the intricate network of life...

The moment we refuse to hurt others because of our own pain, is the time we evolve as souls.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.