“It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.”
“What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?”
“Monsters? Why? Because we admit to the pain we cause? Admit we like it?...”
“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.”
“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger?”
“At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all.”