- “No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn’t even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?” ― Sierra D. Waters, Debbie.
- We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love. Gabby Bernstein (Judgment Detox)
- “It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer infinity. Every stare revealed inky black abyss with a hint of divinity.” ― Hubert Martin
- “But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I’m nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that’s all I’ll be–one big scar of a love gone wrong.” ― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him
- “And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last time in years.” ― Hubert Martin
- Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering. Neil Strauss
- “You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powerful person.” ― Hubert Martin
- “I’d rather watch myself being hurt & eventually Grow, than to stop believing in people & close my heart for bitterness to Sow!” ― Somya Kedia
- “The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” ― Wallace Stegner, The Spectator Bird
- “Your ego lives inside you but she is not you; she is your close cousin. We always react more when a family member is hurt. That’s why you react when your dear cousin Ego gets hurt. Your core self is very secure and untroubled by what people say.” ― Shunya
- “Artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) occur as long as one has not met a Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One). To look for ways to become free from both of these has been called in this time cycle as dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation that gives happiness to one’s own self & others). Otherwise, there is no dharmadhyan in this current time cycle. Therefore, whatever prevents artadhyan and raudradhyan is called dharmadhyan.” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “They’ll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.” ― David Rovics
- “They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their fingers traced my secrets and their desires carved my skin.” ― Hubert Martin
- “It’s not other people that hurt us, but what we feel about them” ― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale
- “An intricate string made up of infinite knots and curls. Taking a step back, it really did seem so fragile. As if the smallest breeze of opportunity would cause it to snap. It held strong though, fastened to me and you as a line of steel.” ― Hubert Martin
- “If I tear the sun from the sky and bring all the stars cascading down, would that line of your lips curve to a smile or a frown? With my hands burnt to a crisp and prosthetics in their place, would you hold me close and allow comfort in your embrace? If I fashioned a band from that sun and those stars, would you kiss these lines on my flesh? These irrevocable scars? I’ve fashioned for you this band of infinite light! Yet upon your finger it is not nearly so bright… You are my stars, sun and light. You are blazing fire in hopeless night. You are a reflection of perfection if my soul stood a mirror. Your affection is my infection, if only you could be nearer. You stand as a darling of your race, while I lay as an emotion with a face. What I sought and seek is not easily found, Yet from your lips escapes the perfect sound. My name and yours, yours and mine, Not even softest silk could be so fine. And yet, I see you standing there, Indecisive and fiddling with your hair. Your eyes are downward cast and your tears and my tears flow, What I would do to see them glow…and for you to know.” ― Hubert Martin
- “And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke its surface will be forgotten. And the world will go on.” ― Hubert Martin
- “The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time.” ― Amanda Howells, The Summer of Skinny Dipping
- “Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “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
- “Often it is not the act that hurts you but the story you tell yourself afterwards.” ― Freequill
- I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse (Peter Camenzind)
- The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. Mark Manson
- “Love doesn’t hurt but wrong decisions hurt.” ― Khuliso Mamathoni, The Greatest Proposal
- “Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it’s the safest place to hide from more pain.” ― Ashly Lorenzana
- If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it. Neil Strauss
- “I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Just because it is not physical, it does not mean it is not abuse. Verbal and Psychological abuses are real things; their effect on the mind of the victim is perhaps more damaging on the mind of the abused than the open wounds that can be seen in physical abuse” ― Arti Honrao
- If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed)
- “I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on and loved us back, that love held even more meaning to me.” ― Hubert Martin