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“Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.”
“Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us t...”
“It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”
“This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.”
“I shared with Fleur the mysterious self-contempt of the survivor. There were times we hated who we were, and who we had to become, in order not to follow those we loved into the next world. We grew...”
“And then came the pain. First in her leg, as if something had sunk its teeth into it. A huge beast, a dog, maybe. It locked its jaws onto her limb and tore at the muscles with its teeth. She scream...”
“She was convinced the demonic pain she had suffered in her leg as a child had been in some sort of preparation for the accident. Engraved in her memory was how she had been left speechless by the f...”
“I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding...”
“I can't believe how hard it is. The pain is indescribable. It's like I've been turned into sandstone and my insides are being slowly hollowed out by a chisel and mallet.”
“We all know pain,’ Nate said. ‘It becomes a part of us… But it doesn't define us.”
“And also because - Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.”
“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
“God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.”
“One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.”
“I don’t want my pain blanked out, he thought to himself; I need to keep my pain. It is a part of who I am, every bit as integral as the joy I’ve felt.”
“The Diary of a Young Girl - This book fills you with sadness. I like this book”
“We’re only given as much as the heart can endure,” “What does not kill you makes you stronger,” “Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn”: these are the kinds of phrases that ...”
“A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.”
“...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...”
“I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't realize is that perpetrating shame is equally as painful, and no one does that with the precisio...”
