“The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.”
– Ray Lewis
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
-Zora Neale Hurston
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
