- “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
- Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one. Meditation is the answer. Osho
- “She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave birth to an eternal thirst, her scent sprouted goosebumps along the length of my body, her touch riveted with electricity that would’ve been static with any other… all these things considered, it was impossible for me not to stare. I began to see her everywhere, in everything.” ― Hubert Martin
- “Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.” ― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, The Accident Season
- “In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass… she made watching that trickling sand a little more bearable. I no longer worried about what would happen when the sand ran out. I began to see the spark each grain held as it fell.” ― Hubert Martin
- “In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to time that is death, the deaths of those we love, but the third and most constant darkness is with us everyday, at all hours of every day, is the darkness of the mind, the pettiness and meanness and hatred, which we have invited into ourselves, and which we pay out with generous interest.” ― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
- “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
- “Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.” ― Holly Black
- If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. Osho
- “It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn’t even feel like love until I got to the end. Even then, it was not the hard surface of rock, but the scorching embrace of more.” ― Hubert Martin
- Part 2. I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. Charlie Munger
- How you relate to the issue *is* the issue. Ron Hulnick
- Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
- “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
- “You said you didn’t want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn’t bear it. Well that just isn’t good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it’s not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..” ― Julian Gough, Juno & Juliet
- Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been. Marcus Aurelius
- “Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over another, always. Whether you chose right or wrong, that cost remains constant. It’s a permanent life tax. That’s where taxes come from.” ― Hubert Martin
- “She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the page. And within those scratched words, those small, sharp incisions, an image can be seen and you’re left to wonder what, in the end, this all could mean.” ― Hubert Martin
- The less the head, the more the wound will heal – with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. Osho
- “The lesser the artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others); lesser are the worldly difficulties.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- Only in ending is there a new beginning. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.” ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
- “What do you do when your words aren’t enough? What do you do when your actions have no effect? What do you do when all the fibers of your existence scream just to be heard? And yet, only the most deafening silence returns the echoes of your screams. Is there something beyond words and action?” ― Hubert Martin
- “Some situations are just like bad dreams, they’re only unbearable while we’re giving them our full attention.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,Love like you’ll never be hurt,Sing like there’s nobody listening,And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
- We often benefit from harm done to us by others, almost never from self-inflicted injuries. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- “Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks and brokenness I hadn’t yet fixed. I could be myself around her, knowing full well she held on as I let go.” ― Hubert Martin
- Sentimentality and emotionalism are the most destructive things. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it – that is what you must do. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. Leo Tolstoy