Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no human eyes should ever have.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let it .

This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, everyaching hug, will remind you - that you are a slave - to me.

Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.

Never had she danced so beautifully; the sharp knives cut her feet, but she did not feel it, for the pain in her heart was far greater.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

If you choose to be sad then you will be sad but there times you don't know why you're sad. Tears start flowing from your eyes.

I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.

Love is the king of the beastsAnd when it gets hungry it must kill to eatLove is the king of the beastsA lion walking down city streets