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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.