“I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?”

“Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never ...”

“The empath helps others by absorbing some of their pain, but who helps the empath?”

“Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.”

“How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another.”

“There is the purity of love, harmonious in every way, but not meant for a lifetime, and then there is the steady love of commitment - no less real but completely different. She had both.”

“Even that exquisite hunger he aroused at her, fiercely sweet as it might be, posed a threat to her sanity.”

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”

“youre ignoring me so loud that its deafening. This silence is so deep that its echoing.”

“Reality does not go away when it is ignored.”

“Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you deal with that?”

“I have always seen talented person being ignored.”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”