Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. Robert Gary Lee
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. Thomas Paine
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness. Kahlil Gibran
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain, because life’s greatest lessons are learnt through pain. Nagato
Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside. Thich Nhat Hanh
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it. Michael J. Fox
When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something. Anita Krizzan
Trying to build a life where you never experience bad feelings is like building a ship that can’t handle a storm. Neil Strauss
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Sarah Frances Brown
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. C.S. Lewis
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. Eckhart Tolle
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Francis Bacon
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck
The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow. Unknown
Pain can change you, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom. Unknown
There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you, and pain that changes you. Unknown
Every negative situation contains the possibility for something positive, an opportunity. It is how you look at it that matters. Robert Greene
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. Eckhart Tolle
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
Where the wound has been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere. Jane Austen
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts
