We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears.
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.