Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Rumi

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
Norman Cousins

Pain

Most described
and vilified
so many different
Ways to feel
each one identified
as real

The slice that stings
those paper things
quick sudden impact
thudding throb
slow constant rill
feel it still

Fiery nerve ends
burn in air
the ones that pulse
and still are bare
a crushing blow
the hammer knows

Witch is bearable
quick and neat
or controlled
by drugs
feel only
heart beat

Escape not there
sensation here
the flesh responds
and nerves repair
a mark remains
to tell the tale

Maps of life
experience brings
disconnect feeling
where scars begin
numb but sensitive
in a different way

Large and small
long and short
some forever
some a memory
fleeting but
touched remembered

And the pain
that remains
from a love lost
or a friend that
is no more is
harder than before

The heart and mind
that becomes entwined
has more to feel
than skin and gut
pain of life
lost or lived

Me