“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. Yo…”— Martin Luther King Jr., americanrhetoric.com
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”— Rabindranath Tagore, paulocoelhoblog.com
“...you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt... we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”— Yehuda Berg, amazon.com
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”— Rodman Philbrick, amazon.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they’re going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn’t about surviving this, it’s about understanding this.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, esquire.com