"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear."

"Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours."

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."