The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

She shows that the force has a lot of talent in it. It also shows that the police force is becoming more intelligent because the women used to have a hard time being in the force, but this shows that all that is changing.

He fixed my thumb. I have no pain, no loss at all.

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.