“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 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.”

“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.”

“The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.”