The root of all suffering is attachment. Buddha
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Ovid
Turn your wounds into wisdom. Oprah Winfrey
Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. Tony Robbins
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran
Too many people believe that everything must be
pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions
and short-circuits the learning process. Robert Greene
Laugher is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. Arnold Schwarzenegger
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Lao Tzu
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. Fight Club
You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. Bob Marley
It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am. Steve Maraboli
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our
conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf
world. C.S. Lewis
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue. C.S. Lewis
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your
energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead
that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. Robert Service
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. Thomas Paine
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you. Unknown (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
I’ve learned more from pain than I could’ve ever learned from pleasure. Unknown
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. Henry David Thoreau
Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you
to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
Tony Robbins
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation. Michael Jordan
People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain. Neil Strauss
Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. Naval Ravikant
Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. John Updike
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain. Aristotle
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. Kenji Miyazawa
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the
depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future. Joel
Osteen
Let go of the past. Robert Greene
It hurts because it matters. John Green
That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. John Green
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. C.S. Lewis
Much of your pain is self-chosen. Kahlil Gibran
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. Jewish proverb
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal. C.S. Lewis
Pain is a great motivator. Naval Ravikant
Pain makes people change. Unknown
It’s better to feel pain than nothing at all. Unknown
Pain is real. But so is hope. Unknown
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise. Chinese proverb
The cost of failure is…learning. Neil Strauss
Strange how we decorate pain. Margaret Atwood
What hurts us is what heals us. Paulo Coelho
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. Aristotle
To hurt is as human as to breathe. J.K. Rowling
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. Neil Gaiman
Move toward resistance and pain. Robert Greene
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
It is when we hurt that we learn. Steve Maraboli
The cure for pain is in the pain. Rumi
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain. Bruce Lee
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain. Charles Bukowski
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. Charles Bukowski
You have to die a few times before you can really live. Charles Bukowski
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. Andre Gide
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not. C.S. Lewis
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he
lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response,
the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of
other men in yourself. Norman Cousins
The prettiest smile hides the deepest secrets. The
prettiest eyes have cried the most tears. And the kindest hearts have
felt the most pain. Unknown
When the clouds get too heavy, it rains. When your pain gets too bad, you cry. Unknown
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. Dante Alighieri
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Dr. Seuss
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their
pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You
feel your strength
in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what
matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own
reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting
society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel
your pain. Jim Morrison
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain
and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are
unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and
dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn’t go so well. Henry
Rollins
Sooner or later, you will need to make friends with disappointment. Dr. SunWolf
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I
sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure
that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the
desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of
insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Edgar Allan Poe
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. George R.R (Game of Thrones)
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. John Aughey
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. Garth Brooks
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. Carl Jung
Life didn’t promise to be wonderful. Teddy Pendergrass
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
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. Publilius Syrus
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. Charlie Chaplin
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it
is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to
conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth
is aching” than to say “My heart is broken”. C.S. Lewis
Envy is pain at the good fortune of others. Aristotle
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. Adam Braun
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. Roy T. Bennett
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. George Jean Nathan
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. Unknown
If we took emotional health as seriously as a society as
we take learning arithmetic and reading, we would have a much smaller
problem. Neil Strauss
My fear delivered one of the great lessons of my life:
That someone without fear can’t push himself. He can’t get better. He
can’t transform negatives in to positives. He can’t open his world to
creativity and invention, or even progress. Georges St-Pierre
The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds. Robert Greene
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a
limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will
have and the more fully you will live. Robert Greene
A good portion of the things you want in life is outside your comfort zone. Idowu Koyenikan
Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if
people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?
Shannon L. Alder
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. Billie Holiday
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be
fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but
for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Les Brown
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. William James
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If
you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds. Norman Vincent
Peale
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. Michel de Montaigne
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. Henry Ward Beecher
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
