“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
“You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.” PeoplePainConnectionsDeeperShared Experiences Author:Negash Ali
“Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.” ThinkingWantHumansPersonsHas BeensRealPainLostProcessHuman BeingsLossGriefHealingComfortUniqueReflectionConnectionsIntenseHeartbreakingDistinctiveHealing Process Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.” ThinkingWorldPlayPainPoliticalSpiritNamesProcessUnderstandingAudienceSubjectsSeriousNormalSurvivalConnectionsBoxesTerrorismTheatreRationalPromotingAnti Terrorism Author:John Lahr
“For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.” WorldMomentsPainFallSportsHoursPleasureOffersShapesLettersConnectionsBillsCollectionsMailTidesGiverOutside WorldCordsPain And PleasureInexorableRise And FallUmbilical CordSports Illustrated Author:Mameve Medwed
“Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.” ChildrenStoriesFeelingsPainYoungCommunitySpaceRoomsEgoConnectionsOutletsYoung Children Author:Tom Hiddleston