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"One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure."
"This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain."
"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity."
"What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless."
"Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant."
"Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love."
"Winning gives birth to hostility Losing, one lies down in pain. The calmed lie down with ease, having set winning and losing aside."
"Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars."
"I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?"
"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain."
"Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life."
"A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives."
"A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving."
"There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated"
"Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion."
"For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy"
"If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain."
"UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN"
"Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul."
