Ricky lets his feelings be known http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/4855752.stm
St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)
Context: Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others
to whom he was chained — unchained, and led
past the sleepers,
door after door silently opening —
out!
“I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist.”
Interview on Larry King Live (15 October 2002) http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0210/15/lkl.00.html
Context: I work for the United Nations. I go to places where enormous upheaval and pain and anguish exist. And a lot of it exists based upon American policy. Whom we support, whom we support as heads of state, what countries we've helped to overthrow, what leaders we've helped to diminish because they did not fit the mold we think they should fit, no matter how ill advised that thought may be.
“I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing.”
Peace, line 762-773 (our emphasis on 764)
Aristophanes was bald.
Peace (421 BC)
Context: Chorus [speaking for Aristophanes]: Yet I have not been seen frequenting the wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to seduce young boys; but I took all my theatrical gear and returned straight home. I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing. Hence both grown men and youths should be on my side and I likewise invite the bald to give me their votes; for, if I triumph, everyone will say, both at table and at festivals, “Carry this to the bald man, give these cakes to the bald one, do not grudge the poet whose talent shines as bright as his own bare skull the share he deserves.”
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Peace+762)
“I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.”
Interview by Brendan Maher http://www.gottfried-helnwein-interview.com/index.html, Start, Ireland, November 24, 2004
Context: When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves – how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller.
"A Far Cry from Africa" (1962)
“Harry Dresden: We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”
Source: The Dresden Files, White Night (2007), Chapter 26
Source: Street Lethal (1983), Chapter 16 “Warrior” (p. 234)
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 3.
Theology and Mysticism
" The Abolitionist Project https://www.abolitionist.com/", Talks given at the FHI (Oxford University) and the Charity International Happiness Conference, 2007
“From the beginning of time,
in childhood, I thought
that pain meant
I was not loved.
It meant I loved.”
Source: "First Memory", Ararat (1990)
Original: Affrontare il dolore, provoca un cambiamento emotivo di resistenza, forza e coraggio, nel percorso esistenziale di ogni essere vivente.
Source: prevale.net
Original: Nessuna azione tormenta l'anima umana tanto quanto i brutti pensieri. Il dolore principale da evitare, sono i vostri stessi pensieri.
Source: prevale.net
Original: Ricostruite il vostro rapporto con la vostra storia familiare, senza negare il dolore, ma senza più esserne prigionieri.
Source: prevale.net
Original: L'incontro di storie, speranze e paure... il confronto con il limite fisico e il dolore, confermano che la vita sia un dono di grande valore.
Source: prevale.net
Count Hermann Keyserling, The Huston Smith Reader
“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.”
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
