“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”

“For too much rest becomes a pain.”

“You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.”

“The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.”

“I said: what about my eyes?God said: Keep them on the road.I said: what about my passion?God said: Keep it burning.I said: what about my heart?God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?I said: pain and sorrow?He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.”

“The still affection of the heart Became an outward breathing type, That into stillness past again, And left a want unknown before; Although the loss had brought us pain, That loss but made us love the more.”