“The expression of negative emotions gives rise to endless pain and suffering.”

“Suffering exists only because it was good for our genes. Conditionally-activated negative emotions were fitness-enhancing in the ancestral environment. In the current era, apologists for mental pain are serving as the innocent mouthpieces of the nasty bits of code which spawned them.”

“People who suffer beyond the formulas of expression,— who are crushed into silence, and beyond pain,— want no display of emotion,— no bleeding heart,— no weeping at the foot of the Cross,— no hysterics,— no phrases! They want to see God, and to know that he is watching over his own.”

“It is ok to feel negative. In fact it's ok to feel any emotion you are currently experiencing. Experience the negative emotions but don't live them.”

“Whatever things a man gives up,
By those he cannot suffer pain.”

“You'll never know the hurt I suffer, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you…”

“To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.”

“Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”

“The doctrine of eternal punishment is the infamy of infamies. As I have often said, the man who believes in eternal torment, in the justice of endless pain, is suffering from at least two diseases—petrifaction of the heart and putrefaction of the brain.”

“An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.”