To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.