“Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.” ThinkingWayHumansHas BeensMatterEnoughPainJoyHumanityForceCausesHuman BeingsDrawsHappeningsConnectionsSignificantJoy HappinessEnough Pain Book:Recovering: A Journal Source: Recovering: A Journal
“People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think about yourself, directs your interest to your own body and what is happening to it. You don't reach out benevolently, filled with good will for others. You don't seem to care enough. Pain makes you a little person, not a big one, and not a nice one, except perhaps in the case of saints, and I've never known one.” PeopleThinkingLittlesPersonsEnoughBodyBigsSeemsCarePainForceInterestKnownCasesNiceOughtHappeningsPraiseFilledSaintIllnessAbout YourselfReach OutGood WillBringing Out The BestEnough Pain Book:Put out the light Source: Put out the light
“Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.” EnoughHelpingHappensPainAsksIndividualDifferencesMaking A DifferenceResolveHad EnoughEnough Pain Author:Mike Ferguson
“Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.” EnoughPainRoomsMedicineHospitalsMidwifeEnough Pain Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.” WorldSoulEnoughEyePainHugeGreenPoisonGreen EyesEnough Pain Book:The Midnight Heir Source: The Midnight Heir
“I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.” IfsEnoughAgePainJoyRealizingLove IsGriefCornersAround The CornerEnough Pain Author:Sara Gilbert
“We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.” WorldTryingHumansEnoughPainFellowsHarmUnnecessaryExploitsStingyEnough Pain Book:The Practice of the Wild Source: The Practice of the Wild