The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. Confucius
Great success requires greater sacrifice. Sachin Prabhu
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. Jim Carrey
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. Sharon Salzberg
Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski
Are you ready to sacrifice who you are, for what you will become. Eric Thomas
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire… Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It’s real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you’ve suddenly become an idiot. There’s no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help. Charles Bukowski
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. Charles Bukowski
When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker. Yasmin Mogahed
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher. Robin S. Sharma
It has been said, time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Kennedy
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Eckhart Tolle
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. Milton Erickson
There is nothing that can take the pain away. But eventually you will find a way to live with it. There will be nightmares. And every day when you wake up, it will be the first thing you think about. Until one day, it will be the second thing. Raymond Reddington (The Blacklist)
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. C. JoyBell C.
Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful. Robert Greene
Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience. Robert Greene
If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals. Lou Holtz
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle. Janet S. Dickens
Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change. Jim Rohn
