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
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
