“Anger was less painful than abandonment.”
“Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.”
“Gratitude takes less energy than anger.”
“We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.”
“Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.”
“Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider’s web.”