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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I've been hurt quite a few times.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

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

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

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.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

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

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

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.