Heard it while listening to his writings on Suicide, a video can be found here, in which his writings are narrated. I find it is very applicable to Depression, i'm sure it also applies to the numerous other forms of pain.
"Your pain the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion in which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician, and drink his potion in silence and tranquility." -Kahlil Gibran
Favorite quote.
“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.” – Karen Armstrong
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. 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
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable….
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” – Neil Gaiman
Suffer the pain of discipline -unknown
"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves." – Mark Twain
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