Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.

If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.

Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.

Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.

There's a wound in you, and the tables, the dice, the cards -- they feel like medicine. They soothe you, put you right for a time. But they're poison, Jesper. Every time you play, you take another sip. You have to find some other way to heal that part of yourself." She laid her hand on his chest. "Stop treating your pain like it's something you imagined."

Quien no sabe de mar no sabe de mal!

I know the pain is bad,” said Elizaveta as she drifted through the thicket. “But the thorns will keep you from forcing the darkness to recede.

Zoja sagte, dass Angst ein Phönix ist. Man kann ihm zusehen, wie er tausendmal verbrennt, und doch wird er zurückkehren.

There is no pain like the pain of transformation.