“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

“The only way out of our suffering is through it. From an ancient Sanskrit writing: Do not try to drive pain away by pretending that it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.”

“Happiness will seek for you only when you cease running away from the things that you call evil.”

“If you are constantly in pain; seek out love; you will find the pain has been cut in half.”

“Seeing therefore they are both [heat and pain] immediately perceived at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is both the intense heat immediately perceived, and the pain; and consequently, that the intense heat immediately perceived, is nothing distinct from a particular sort of pain.”

“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”

“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

“You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
I sit here alone
There's always someone else to blame.”