"I was taught that pain is bad."

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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Pain, Sensitivity, Destruction, Identity, Self

"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Pain, Illness, Suffering, Humor

"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Pain, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Pain, Truth, Power, Today, Inspirational

"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Pain, Sadness, Meaning, Life

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Tears, Meaning, Emotion

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Pain, Memory, Past, Identity

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Suffering, Healing, Emotion

"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Pain, Struggle, Identity, Self

"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Pain, Pleasure, Feeling, Choice

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"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart."

Change

"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."

God

"Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease."

Work

"A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling."

People

"If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom."

God

"My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you."

Love

"The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked."

Man

"I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid."

Courage

"I am too old to think."

Old

"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."

Success