- “When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aided her breath. She would not fall with me by her side, for I was the wings that sprouted from her back. No one would cross her without first having to survive my wrath.” ― Hubert Martin
- “My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.” ― David Levithan, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
- “Look, it’s easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire,” Jace said. “They’re no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they’re as cunning as snakes. They can’t lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They’ll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place.” He sighed. “They’re not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
- “Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.” ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
- “What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the Self). What keeps them alive is adharma (Non-Religion of the Self).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Jesus showed compassion for the hurting and the lost, and so should you.” ― Jim George
- “The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escaped through the smallest crevice. With her arms spread wide and all her muscles hard and taunt, she broke free from the chrysalis, letting loose her new wings and that mighty storm. I thought it was over, but I was wrong. She spread her wings and sang her song. She rode upon the howl of wind until she was gone.” ― Hubert Martin
- Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Jordan Peterson
- “How much hurt looks like art.” ― Jenim Dibie
- Today’s hot pain is tomorrow’s cold wisdom. @TheStoicEmperor
- “That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] ‘May no living being in this world be hurt by me’. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature’s law].” ― Dada Bhagwan
- “Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.” ― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
- You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination. Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)
- Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not. Paulo Coelho
- If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don’t do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain. Osho
- “It is OK to be sad, hurt and to worry but you must drop the load and believe in yourself and dream big again.” ― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
- “The fruit of practicing dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) is samyak darshan (enlightened vision).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I’m only truly alive in the moments between.” ― Hubert Martin
- Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I gave her the world, the moon, the sun, the stars, the planets… I gave her my breath, my voice, my sight, my life… I gave her memories, dreams, happiness… I gave her care and compassion… I gave her everything… and with sickly curved words, venom dripping from her fingers, she whispered in a way that would shatter glass… between her poisonous lips and her barbed teeth, she told me a story of blackness and catastrophe… from her mind a story of corruption and infamy sprang, her first touch an eternal perversion of my vision of life, an absolute seduction from the face of unbearable desire herself… the chills of a dead soul are frosty, a clouded layer of ash fills my insides, specks of dust fill my veins, empty thoughts smother my mind… and in the final steps of our pitifully destructive dance, I will dip you low, caress you so closely, feel the softness of your neck with the skin of my lips and, for that single moment, lost in the promise in your eyes and the intoxicating scent of your taunt body, I saw a sort of perfection that in any other place and light I would only hopelessly attempt to imagine… a horribly curious vividly creative swirl of chaos and flesh eating light, a specter of glow, paint and sound whose first inhalation is the slow quiver of last exhale, my exhale, my final whisper… I only wish I could have done more… but so impossible was it to resist what made her, her…” ― Hubert Martin
- “All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who deserves the best of me.” ― Hubert Martin
- “And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences.” ― Hubert Martin
- “The ego is constantly on guard and looking for all the ways it will be betrayed and hurt. If we listen with our fears then almost everything is a threat. If we listen with our spirit then no offence is taken. The voice we listen to changes our perception.” ― Donna Goddard, Together
- “Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Anyone who claims good or evil isn’t one or either, they’re just a liar… the worst kind of liar… the liar that doesn’t even know they’re lying. We’re human. We’re good during the day and evil at night, half the time those roles are reversed, that’s what it’s all about.” ― Hubert Martin
- “I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh. Every thrust, every touch, every moan that escapes her lips…they are famine to my soul, and I still can’t let her go.” ― Hubert Martin
- No one can hurt me – that’s my job. Byron Katie
- “Love should make you better not bitter.” ― Temi O’Sola, Love Opens Your Eyes
- “Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.” ― Hubert Martin
- “When the intents of like and dislike arise in sensual pleasures (of 5 senses), keeping tolerance in it, (and) to not put blame on any one is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation; to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization