Lacerating Pain Quotes & Sayings

You just have to live and love and do your best in both. That's God, and that's heaven, and it's not something we have to wait until we die to find. It's here, now, in all of us. — Cody McFadyen

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. — Leo Buscaglia

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. — Sara Zarr

You get into trouble the way debutantes get into ball gowns. — Alyxandra Harvey

Ignorance is darkness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To live with his physical hideousness, incapacitating deformities and unremiting pain is trial enough, but to be exposed to the cruelly lacerating expressions of horror and disgust by all who behold him -- is even more difficult to bear. [...] For in order to survive, Merrick forces himself to suffer these humiliations, I repeat, humiliations, in order to survive, thus he exposes himself to crowds who pay to gape and yawp at this freak of nature, the Elephant Man. — Bernard Pomerance

I believe that if an individual is not on the path to transcending his society and seeing in what way it furthers or impedes the development of human potential, he cannot enter into intimate contact with his humanity. — Erich Fromm

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes. — Dennis Rainey