Awake Quote by Tara Brach

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

— Jane Austen

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

— Olive Schreiner

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It…

— Sylvia Boorstein

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Loss and betrayal, however, cause such excruciating pain that it is tempting to block the heart to prevent this misery from happening again. No…

— Fay Simpson

Our heart is very sensitive and also very powerful¦ we need to follow our heart but at the same time we need to protect…

— Bubbly

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are…

— Charles Frazier

Knowing what it feels like to be in pain is exactly why we try to be kind to others.

— Anonymous

Acting from the appropriateness of the heart, we are freed from the neediness of the mind.

— Stephen Levine

Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves that our…

— Wayne Muller

Much of our hearts are not controlled by ourselves, but instead by what other people do or say, how they are or will be.…

— Anonymous