1118 – “Some people belong in your heart, but not in your life. Love them, but love yourself too much to keep letting them hurt you.”

-Mandy Hale

1093 – “Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is a trait not known to the higher animals.”

-Mark Twain

1051 – “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

– Elizabeth Appell, under the nickname Lassie Benton [Widely Misattributed to Anaïs Nin , See Source Notes for details]

1005 – Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan on Humans and Animals

“Humans – who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals – have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them – without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”

-Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan

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961 – “Someone I loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

-Mary Oliver

833 – “Always.”

–Severus Snape in J K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

778 – “A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.”

–Frida Kahlo

716 – “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.”

– Mary Tyler Moore [Attributed]

691 – “Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.”

–Samuel Butler

677 – “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”

–anonymous