Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

Requite injury with kindness.

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals [animal food].

Abstinence | Man |

Livy, formally Titus Livius, aka Titus Livy NULL

The injury done to character is greater than can be estimated.

Character |

Leopold Schefer

For present grief there is always a remedy; however much thou sufferest, hope; hope is the greatest happiness of man.

Grief | Hope | Present | Happiness |

Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears

Sense |

Mary Shelley, née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

Folly | Grief | Man | Power | Soul | Spirit | Will |

Meher Baba, born Merwan Sheriar Irani

Sincere penance does not consist in perpetuating grief for the wrongs, but in resolving to avoid in future those deeds which call forth remorse.

Deeds | Future | Grief | Deeds |

Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim

This passage from nothingness to real being, this quitting of oneself is a birth accompanied by pain, for by it natural love is excluded. All grief except grief for sin comes from love of the world. In God is neither sorrow, nor grief, nor trouble. Wouldst thou be free from all grief and trouble, abide and walk in God, and to God alone. As long as love of the creature is in us, pain cannot cease.

Birth | God | Grief | Love | Pain | Sin | God |

Madeleine L’Engle

The earth will never be the same again. Rock, water, tree, iron share this grief As distant stars participate in pain. A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf, A dolphin death, O this particular loss Is Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried, If this small one was tossed away as dross, The very galaxies then would have lied. How shall we sing our love's song now In this strange land where all are born to die? Each tree and leaf and star show how The universe is part of this one cry, That every life is noted and cherished, And nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

Earth | Grief | Land | Life | Life | Nothing | Universe | Will | Loss |

Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom

Learn to detach...Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully. That's how you are able to leave it... Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that love entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

Detachment | Experience | Fear | Grief | Love | Need | Pain | Afraid |

Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even ,you experience them fully and completely You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, "Alright I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

Emotions | Experience | Grief | Love | Need | Pain | Afraid |

Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin NULL

If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.

Grief |

Morihei Ueshiba

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is Aikido.

Aggression | Control |

Nāgārjuna, fully Acharya Nāgārjuna NULL

Even if the son of his enemy speaks sweetly, the wise man remains on guard. A poisonous leaf retains its potency, and can cause injury at any time.

Cause | Enemy | Man | Wise |

Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.

Death | Future | Grief | Friends |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Man | Need | Vengeance |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Grief | Man | Wants |

Nellie McClung

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

Dependence | Injustice | Injustice |