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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

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

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

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.