Daniel Lubetzky

My sister shared this excerpt that I found deeply introspective and insightful, on the sensory varieties of pain.

“And at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee. There’s the little empty pain of leaving something behind ‒ graduating, taking the next step forward, walking out of something familiar and safe into the unknown. There’s the big, whirling pain of life upending all of your plans and expectations. There’s the sharp little pains of failure, and the more obscure aches of successes that didn’t give you what you thought they would. There are the vicious, stabbing pains of hopes being torn up. The sweet little pains of finding others, giving them your love, and taking joy in their life as they grow and learn. There’s the steady pain of empathy that you shrug off so you can stand beside a wounded friend and help them bear their burdens.
And if you are very, very lucky, there are a few blazing hot little pains you feel when you realize that you are standing in a moment of utter perfection, an instant of triumph, or happiness, or mirth which at the same time cannot possibly last ‒ and yet will remain with you for life.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don’t feel it.”
—    Jim Butcher, White Night

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,
not on fighting the old,
but on building the new.”
― Socrates

“Success is liking yourself,
liking what you do,
and liking how you do it.”
-Maya Angelou

“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“There is very little success where there is little laughter.”
—Andrew Carnegie

“A wise man can learn more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
- Formula One champion Niki Lauda, as quoted in the amazing movie, Rush

“The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it.”
-Chinese Proverb

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
-William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Shared by OneVoice Israel Activist, Elanit Green

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the THINKS you can think up if only you try.”
-Dr. Seuss

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
- Abraham Lincoln