If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
For overcoming fear, I think that an exercise called “fear-setting” is extremely helpful.
Fear-setting
has produced my biggest business and personal successes, as well as
repeatedly helped me to avoid catastrophic mistakes.
Overanalysis has been my life story. It can be far worse
than laziness, as overanalysis leads to the same lack of action but also
self-loathing.
For years, I set goals, made resolutions to change
direction, and nothing came of either. I was just as insecure and scared
as the rest of the world.
Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to
do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be –
it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need
to do.
What are you waiting for? If you cannot answer this
without resorting to the previously rejected concept of good timing, the
answer is simple: You’re afraid, just like the rest of the world.
Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood
and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit
of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got
into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous
businesspeople for advice.
I don’t think people are fearless. If you’re fearless, you’re nuts. But you can learn to fear less.
To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not.
Fear is your friend. Fear is an indicator. Sometimes is
shows you what you shouldn’t do, but more often than not it shows you
exactly what you should do.
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows.
The best people in almost any field are almost always the people who get the most criticism.
Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
What are you putting off out of fear?
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
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. Marquis de Sade
Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you. Tim Fargo
Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change. Frida Kahlo
Stay focused on your purpose, not your pain. Ranal Currie
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. Bo Bennett
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.
Walter Anderson
First, having the larger goal will lift your mind out of
the moment and help you endure the hard work and drudgery. Second, as
you become better at this task or craft, it becomes increasingly
pleasurable. Robert Greene
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented
in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that
taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things
that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been
alive. James Baldwin
Depend on no one. Get shit done yourself. Unknown
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back. Unknown
Growth in painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Unknown
Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. Unknown
Stop saying “I wish” and start saying “I will”. Unknown
Every flower must grow through dirt. Unknown
The more you’re hurt, the more you’ll change. Unknown
Problems are the price you pay for progress. Branch Rickey
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here. Walt Disney
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. Iain Thomas
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to
remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so
little from peace. Chuck Palahniuk
Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing
to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when
you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life. Greg Plitt
I don’t believe there is pleasure in life. I believe
there is only relief of pain… We have to suffer to be on top. Georges
St-Pierre
Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. Rumi
Some days, we’re just looking for a soft place to land. Dr. SunWolf
You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far. Uncle Remus
Bad is never good until worse happens. Danish proverb
You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. Walt Disney
It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. Ashleigh Brilliant
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. Woody Hayes
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. William Goldman
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. Elizabeth Taylor
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
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
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
We only part to meet again. John Gay
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi
No words can explain the way I’m missing you. Sam Smith
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? Rose F. Kennedy
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. Jim Morrison
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? Leo Buscaglia
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your
heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally
in your life’s search for love and wisdom. Rumi
Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday. Euripides
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Nicholas Sparks
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that
remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain
marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. Margaret
Atwood
You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. J.K. Rowling
The spiritual path is not strewn with roses. Haridas Chaudhuri
Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. Samuel Johnson
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. Lois Lowry
We carry our burden on and on, until one day, suddenly, we laugh and set it down upon the ground. Muriel Strode
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill
I cursed my misfortune, — and it remained one. Muriel Strode
Your comfort zone is your danger zone. Greg Plitt
Pain is weakness leaving the body. Chesty Puller
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. Jerzy Gregorek
Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn. Georges St-Pierre
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. John C. Maxwell
No pain. No gain. Shut up and train. Unknown
Endure the pain. Enjoy the gain. Unknown
Have the guts to go beyond the pain. Unknown
Sore. The most satisfying pain. Unknown
Don’t quit. You’re already in pain. You’re already hurt. Get a reward from it. Unknown
It never gets easier, you just get better. Unknown
Train insane or remain the same. Unknown
If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results. Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a
champion. If you can’t go through it, forget it. And that’s what most
people lack: having the guts – the guts to go in and just say… “I don’t
care what happens”. Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better. Angela Duckworth
Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute, or an hour
or a day, or even a year. But eventually, it will subside. And something
else take its place. Eric Thomas
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle
grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is
not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on
and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens. Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable. Darrin Patrick
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort, and we control both. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)
It’s not who’s the best – it’s who can take the most pain. Steve Prefontaine
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Duke Ellington
We acquire the strength we have overcome. Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the end of pain is success. Eric Thomas
The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it. Aella
The true greats will always overcome adversity. Conor McGregor
Eccedentesiast (.n). Someone who hides pain behind a smile.
Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Robert Greene
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. John C. Maxwell
Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams. Greg Plitt
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. Kahlil Gibran
The things that we’re the most resistant to are usually
what we need. And the things we’re most scared to let go of are
typically the ones we most need to relinquish. Neil Strauss
The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to
cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain — like an athlete, you come to
enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the
easy way out. Robert Greene
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more
creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or
negativity. Yoko Ono
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Unknown
Smiling is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain. Unknown
Adversity introduces a man to himself. Unknown
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and
pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that,
you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you. Tony
Robbins
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. Octavia Butler
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. Jane Austen
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. Jeb Dickerson
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. Hayley Williams
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. David Richo
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Horace
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. Denis Waitley
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. Robin Sharma
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time. Willie Nelson
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Theodore Roosevelt
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. Cheryl Richardson
Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality. Jennifer Grey
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should
stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of
pain there are no heroes. George Orwell (1984)
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force
yourself to put one foot before the other and you refuse to let it get
to you. You fight. You cry. Then you go about the business of living.
That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way. Elizabeth Taylor
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain, in time you will move through your pain. Bryant McGill
Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real. R. M. Drake
Don’t try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn’t meant to be understood, but to be accepted. Unknown
You don’t know pain until you’re staring at yourself in
the mirror with tears streaming down your face and you’re begging
yourself to just hold on and be strong. Unknown
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter. It
will go away when you learn to accept life’s challenges with grace and
ease. Leon Brown
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires — disruptions in
our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting
our lives in a meaningful way. Bernie S. Siegel
Something very beautiful happens to people when their
world falls apart. A humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges
at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Marianne Wilson
God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world. Tom Corr
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. Ernest Hemingway
It is not what happens to us in life that defines us. It is what we do with it that defines us. Tom Seaman
Use your enemy’s arrows for firewood. Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowing what it feels to be in pain, is exactly why we try to be kind to others. Jiraiya
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. Bob Marley
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. José N. Harris
Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by
joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than
the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain
eternally pure and faithful. Kahlil Gibran
We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t. Frank A. Clark
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you. John Green
Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie. Unknown
I know pain in every way that’s why i never want to hurt anyone. Unknown
My biggest mistake is thinking that people care for me as much as I do for them. Unknown
Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a
pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Unknown
Just because somebody is strong enough to handle pain doesn’t mean they deserve it. Unknown
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. Lionel Trilling
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no
longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any
more themselves. Blaise Pascal
If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your
tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Santosh Kalwar
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change.
If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change. John A. Simone
Sr
The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it. Robert Brault
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it
strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs
life under a sting even better than under a caress. Andre Gide
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours. Shannon L. Alder
Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. Shannon L. Alder
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings. Mahavira
