“Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.”

“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?”

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.”

“Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.”

“Facing pain causes an emotional change of resistance, strength and courage in the existential pathway of every living being.”

“What hurts is not the criticism of our enemies, but rather it is the silence of our friends that truly hurts.”

“Pain is not the real problem; the real problem is our thinking about pain, our resistance to it, our attempt to escape it and get to an (imaginary) future.”

“Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”

“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”

“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.”