“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.”

“Nobody will achieve anything just by dreaming.”

“What you are seeing and hearing right now is nothing but a dream. You are dreaming right now in this moment. You are dreaming with the brain awake.”

“I had a dream about you. We installed Dr. Robert Jarviks artificial heart in a mannequin and brought it to life, only to later kill it because a creature thats all fake heart and no brain is whats ...”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lu...”

“In these myriad ways, we carved out our lives in Los Angeles. Yet falling asleep was often an act of travel, taking me quickly by the hand so that I am instantly surrounded by verdant foliage, the ...”

“Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.”

“Never are we as honest as at night, alone with thoughts and nightmares.”