"Sometimes, this disapproval of how you are managing your pain crosses over to disbelief that you are in as much pain as you say you are. They don’t believe that your pain is a legitimate enough reason..."
- Murray J. McAlister
"Sometimes, we expect life to work a certain way and when it doesn’t we blame others or see it as a sign, rather than face the pain of the choices we should or shouldn’t have made. Real healing won’t b..."
- Shannon L. Alder
"Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind."
"People that don't know what they are worth will always see their capture's wings, but never their tail."
"Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?"
- Ruby Wax
"People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they..."
"Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind."
"Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day."
"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so."
- Anna Funder
"Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in."