That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt. @ -John Green
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
Feel your pain so you can get past it, do not bury it or it will try to creep into every moment of your life.
It hurts because it matters. @ -John Green
It never gets easier, you just get better.
Smiling is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain.
Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. @ -C. S. Lewis
I know pain in every way that's why I never want to hurt anyone.
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today. @ -Paulo Coelho
If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind. @ -Shannon L. Alder
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. @ -Ernest Hemingway
There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you, and pain that changes you.
When your heart breaks, the scars of healing will make you stronger.
I've learned more from pain than I could've ever learned from pleasure.
Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears. @ -Demi Lovato
Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lesson in life. @ -Buddha
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. @ -Hayley Williams
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
If you avoid the conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.
A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. @ -Bob Marley
Eccedentesiast (.n). Someone who hides pain behind a smile.
It's going to hurt to walk away, but your heart will heal.
Tears are words the heart can't express. @ -Gerard Way
Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain. @ -Bob Dylan
Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings. @ -Shae Ross
Pain makes people change.
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
There's only so many times you can allow someone to let you down before you will no longer tolerate being disappointed. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts. @ -Brigitte Nicole
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. @ -Laurell K. Hamilton
Don't feel bad if everyone thinks you should be over it by now, spend time focused on healing not on what others think.
If you're going through hell keep going. @ -Winston Churchill
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. @ -Lance Armstrong
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. @ -Jim Rohn
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life can break you down but you decide if you will build yourself back up.
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. @ -Charlie Chaplin
What hurts us is what heals us. @ -Paulo Coelho
People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain. @ -Neil Strauss
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
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
You will feel better again.
Maturity really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment. @ -Alain de Botton
Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. @ -Dr. Seuss
If love becomes too painful, then it's time to let that love go and save yourself. You have to keep this in mind because you'll be able to find another love but not another self. @ -Robert Tew
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. @ -Bob Marley
Depression/anxiety requires a tremendously strong person to endure its pain. You are that person. It may not feel like it, but you are. @ -The Anxiety Man
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Life changes often, each cycle comes with unique pain and joy. Hold on a little longer because life is always moving forward to new stages.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
Smiles can hide so much; fear, pain, sadness, tears. But then again they reflect one thing: strength.
Love never hurts. Lies hurt. Deceit hurts. Betrayal hurts. Love heals.
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. @ -José N. Harris
Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better.
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Hard memories need time to let go, but don't let them keep eating away at your happiness.
Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. @ -Angela Merkel
One of the greatest pain and agony is being in one sided love with someone.
Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. @ -Charles Spurgeon
All the tears you can cry won't change another person's feelings for you.
Choose to tell the truth, even if you've been lied too. Choose to love again, even after heartbreak. Never let anything stop you from learning and growing.
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. @ -Bob Marley
Everything heals. Your body heals. Your heart heals. The mind heals. Wounds heal. Your heart repairs itself. Your happiness is always going to come back.
The kindest hearts have felt the most pains.
God is closest to those with broken hearts. @ -Jewish saying
Learn from your past, but don't be controlled by it. @ -Mel Robbins
What brings us to tears, will lead us to grace. Our pain is never wasted. @ -Bob Goff
The pain you feel today, will be the strength you feel tomorrow.
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. @ -Robert Gary Lee
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
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. @ -Octavia Butler
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
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
The worst kind of hurt is betrayal because it means someone was willing to hurt you just to make themselves feel better.
If it hurts to think about, think about something else. Stop the pain by distraction and let your heart rest a little.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
I know you've been hurt; you didn't deserve it.
You don't deserve to be hurt, emotionally or physically.
Start to spend time with yourself, complete stillness can heal a tired soul.
Have the guts to go beyond the pain.
In order to grow and to experience, one must leave his comfort zone. Very often this means that you have to do what you are afraid of in order to find what you didn't know you were looking for. This takes a lot of courage.
I think, often, when you are in just a lot of pain, it comes out as anger. @ -Nell Hudson
Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows. @ -Paulo Coelho
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. @ -Mary Tyler Moore
Long after I have given up, my heart still searches for you without my permission. @ -Rudy Francisco
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. @ -Norman Vincent Peale
Forget the pain, remember the lesson.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. @ -Shannon L. Alder
Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not. @ -Paulo Coelho
It hurts to let go, but sometimes it hurts more to hold on.
Pain doesn't just show up in our lives for no reason. It's a sign that something in our lives needs to change.
Before healing a wound, you must first admit that you are bleeding.
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
I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much. @ -Emilie Autumn
It's alright to cry, it's alright to be angry, bad feelings are here for a reason and it doesn't make you bad for having them.
The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. @ -Ovid
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation. @ -Michael Jordan
To heal a wound you must stop scratching it. @ -Paulo Coelho
Don't quit. You're already in pain. You're already hurt. Get a reward from it.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Don't try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn't meant to be understood, but to be accepted.
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.  @ -C. S. Lewis
What is broken can be mended. What hurts can be healed. And no matter how hard it gets, the sun will rise again.
Because of your difficult experience, you will become stronger, wiser and more compassionate toward those having a hard time. @ -Haemin Sunim
Harsh words never heal wounds or make friends.
"Why did they insult me?" Bad question. "Why did I feel insulted?" Good question.
When it hurts to move on, just remember the pain you felt hanging on.
Never be afraid of tears. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing truth. Tear-filled eyes are capable of seeing the beauty of life. @ -Osho
I've survived a lot of things, and I'll probably survive this. @ -J.D. Salinger
The marks humans leave are too often scars. @ -John Green
They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart. @ -Don Gibson
If you see somebody that's hurting, don't look away. And if you are hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and go tell somebody. @ -Lady Gaga
Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. @ -Arnold Schwarzenegger
Time heals all wounds.
Pain is just a lesson once you heal.
When things break down, what has been ignored rushes in. @ -Jordan Peterson
It hurt because it mattered. @ -John Green
Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that. @ -Ally Condie
Hurt can either make or break you.
Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.
You must allow the pain to visit. You must allow it to teach you. You must not allow it to overstay. @ -Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. @ -Mark Twain
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.  @ -Martin Luther King Jr.
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination. @ -Sadhguru
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. @ -Lou Holtz
A life without pain and suffering is like a sea without waves: lifeless. Be rational, take a new perspective and detach yourself, they will pass. @ -Maxime Lagacé
If experience is the mother of wisdom, pain is the father. @ -Thibaut
Sadness doesn't always leave you; grief can cling to you for years. What is important is to learn to feel joy again despite it.
It is when we hurt that we learn. @ -Steve Maraboli
Do not run from pain. Pain is here to teach you something. @ -Justin Kan
Sadness can result from a change that you didn't expect, or it can signal that you might need to make changes in your life. Emotions are changing and will come and go.
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted. @ -Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end. @ -Kim Cowart
Much of your pain is self-chosen. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Pain is real. But so is hope.
Give yourself time to heal.
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. @ -Leo Buscaglia
If someone has caused you pain in the past you have full permission to keep them out of your future. @ -Jay Shetty
Knowing what it feels to be in pain, is exactly why we try to be kind to others. @ -Jiraiya
It may take time but things will get better.
Time doesn't heal emotional pain; you need to learn how to let go. @ -Roy T. Bennett
At the end of pain is success. @ -Eric Thomas
Strength is nothing more than how well you hide the pain.
Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it's breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you'll see the sun come shining through for you. @ -Charlie Chaplin
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. @ -Haruki Murakami
Picking at scabs leaves bigger scars, the same applies to past emotional hurts. Leave them alone and give them time to heal.
Sadness is a tricky emotion you have to know that feeling it does not mean anything needs fixed, you just need time.
Patience needs to be part of the healing process; a broken heart has many layers of complicated wounds. Trying to drown the pain fills the next relationship with festering wounds of the past.
It's the pain and failure that teaches you the best lesson in life and motivates you to rebuild yourself and stand again with a robust faith. @ -Priti Chaubey
First, it hurts, then it heals.
Pain doesn't hurt as much when you stop avoiding it. @ -Mel Robbins
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
The pain that you've been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming.
Hold on the pain ends.
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place. @ -Michael Faudet
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. @ -Maya Angelou
If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. @ -Zora Neale Hurston
Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don't wallow. @ -Shane Parrish
You're going to go through tough times, but you can always grow from it. See the positive in negative events.
I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real. @ -Johnny Cash
Sore. The most satisfying pain.
Don’t feel bad for feeling.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. @ -Oscar Wilde
Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it. @ -Neil Strauss
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. @ -Jim Carrey
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. @ -Wallace Stegner
Suffering is inevitable. The point is to find meaning in spite of suffering.
A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere. @ -Rose Gordon
Only in ending is there a new beginning. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain will leave you, when you let go.
There are no gains without pains. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Fill up your dark days with any little comfort you can find, keep reaching for the next better feeling thought to find your way out of the darkness.
Pain changes people.
Hurt people hurt people. @ -Charlie Eads
We are all gonna get heartbroken over and over again. We are all gonna deal with failures all over again. But it's how we think about those moments, in the moment. @ -Lilly Singh
Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.
Let it hurt. Let it heal. Let it go.
You must go through that short-term pain to reach long-term gains. A meaningful life is about growth, not comfort. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure. @ -Tony Robbins
Move on from your past wounds by leaving them alone to heal.
When all you want to do is review old hurts, distract yourself by imagining a beautiful no limits future. Do this until the pain dulls and your heart aches little less.
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. @ -Mother Teresa
The river you're in has strong waves and smooth waves too. Same water, but different energy. Use them both wisely. @ -Maxime Lagacé
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. @ -John C. Maxwell
Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. @ -Jennifer Brown
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. @ -Jim Rohn
The pain you feel now, will be a strength after some time.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. @ -Havelock Ellis
Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals. @ -Amy Morin
If you have no struggles, you'll have no strength. @ -Tim Fargo
Heal the heart, don't hide the pain. @ -Melanie Koulouris
If it causes emotional pain you must know to be wary of danger.
Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. @ -Joseph Campbell
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
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. @ -Helen Keller
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the 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
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. @ -Cheryl Richardson
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
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
Endure the pain. Enjoy the gain.
Keep your chin up, things will get better before you know it.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. @ -Charlie Chaplin
You think you deserve that pain but you don't. @ -Richard Swersey
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. @ -Alan Watts
Don't let pain define you, let it refine you. @ -Tim Fargo
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. @ -Franklin D. Roosevelt
We acquire the strength we have overcome. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
To hurt is as human as to breathe.  @ -J.K. Rowling
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections. @ -Thomas Paine
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. @ -Mary Oliver
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. @ -Neil Gaiman
Sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen. @ -Melissa Jensen
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal.
Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. @ -Dan Reeves
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
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. @ -Lionel Trilling
Give yourself permission to feel anger, pain, and resentment. Relax, then let it go with love.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. @ -Henepola Gunaratana
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
Let your pain fuel your purpose.
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. @ -Thomas Paine
The less the head, the more the wound will heal – with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. @ -Osho
The journey is less difficult when we find meaning in the struggle.
You may have to endure today's pain to avoid tomorrow's suffering.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. @ -Ram Dass
Thinking of you is a poison I drink often. @ -Atticus
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Allow yourself to be sad. Cry if you feel like it. Notice if you feel relief after the tears stop.
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. @ -Ronald David Laing
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. @ -Jim Rohn
Are you ready to sacrifice who you are, for what you will become? @ -Eric Thomas
Strange how we decorate pain. @ -Margaret Atwood
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. @ -Sophocles
Whatever rejection you're facing right now is a gift. @ -Mel Robbins
So other people hurt me? That's their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own. @ -Marcus Aurelius
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be. @ -Epictetus
Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously. @ -Osho
We cannot learn without experiencing pain.
Pain is weakness leaving the body. @ -Chesty Puller
Let go of the pain. Do something different today and welcome happiness back into your life.
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. @ -Hermann Hesse
Fresh air, movement, and laughter are the most underrated remedies for sorrow.
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life. @ -Jerzy Gregorek
When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. @ -Jaggi Vasudev
Just because I am strong enough to handle pain doesn't mean I deserve it.
Growth is often a painful process. @ -Elbert Hubbard
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
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. @ -Aristotle
One suffers from disappointment, which is to say like every pain, it may be cured.
Recognize reality even when you don't like it – especially when you don't like it. @ -Charlie Munger
Today's hot pain is tomorrow's cold wisdom.
Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever. @ -Shane Parrish
Time heals what reason cannot. @ -Seneca
Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic. @ -Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it. @ -Meredith T. Taylor
With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on. @ -Federico Chini
You don't walk out of a breakup empty-handed. Every breakup teaches a lesson. Find yours.
The phoenix must burn to emerge. @ -Janet Fitch
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it, then you can go on to the next lesson.
Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. @ -Naval Ravikant
To heal a wound you need to stop touching it.
One cannot get through life without pain... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. @ -Bernie S. Siegel
It's better to feel pain than nothing at all.
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. @ -Thomas Jefferson
The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away. @ -Shane Parrish
Among my stillness was a pounding heart. @ -Shannon A. Thompson
Healing from the past is a part of new beginnings, you need to see what could be, to be able to heal what was.
And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. @ -Elizabeth Eulberg
The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn't work out the first time. @ -Amanda Howells
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. @ -Julius Caesar
Sorrow is an inextricable part of life. Whoever lives experiences it. There's no escape. If we understand this then we would stop bewailing every misfortune that occurs. Life is a bargain. You want joy but you can't have it without suffering. You must accept the whole package. @ -The Ancient Sage
Just because they hurt you doesn't mean love will always hurt. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Be proud of the things that you had to endure that tried to destroy you but couldn't. @ -Jasmine Upwork
You have a purpose that is greater than your pain. @ -Jasmine Upwork
They say the truth hurts, but what hurts most is when you lie to yourself. @ -Jasmine Upwork
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life. @ -Nisargadatta Maharaj
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Some people learn to lose. Others lose and learn. @ -Georges St Pierre
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses. @ -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or we can evolve in a state of joy and inspiration. @ -Joe Dispenza
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. @ -Henry Miller
Perhaps the bravest thing you can do is to walk away from the people and situations that are hurting your heart.
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
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. @ -Arthur Schopenhauer
When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something. @ -Anita Krizzan
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. @ -Leo Tolstoy
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. @ -Charles Dickens
Just because the scars have healed, doesn't mean that the pain has.
Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering. @ -Neil Strauss
Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide. @ -Brittany Burgunder
People who wrong others for no good reason tend to keep at it until they finish the job. @ -Thucydides
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. @ -Milton Erickson
Adversity is the first path to truth. @ -Lord Byron
No one can hurt me – that's my job. @ -Byron Katie
Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable. @ -Darrin Patrick
Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human. @ -Pema Chödrön
Never be afraid to suffer, it's just a tool that some people aren't willing to use. It's that very tool that strengthens weak people. @ -David Goggins
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. @ -William James
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. @ -Orson F. Whitney
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
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep on going back to it. @ -Marcus Aurelius
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
We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love. @ -Gabby Bernstein
No one said break ups were easy, but somethings the hardest things in life are necessary.
You feel your strength in the experience of pain. @ -Jim Morrison
No one can defeat you until you defeat yourself.  @ -Hiral
The paradox of learning is that to get better, you need to go outside your comfort zone, and thus feel worse. The people who grow continuously, thus feel consistently over their heads. @ -Scott Young
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.  @ -J.K. Rowling
Laughter is a cure to the bitter disappointments in life. When you are sad, look for laughter to ease the pain.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long. @ -Pablo Neruda
We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim. @ -R.M. Drake
If you give too much value to the pain of the past and uncertainty of the future, you will waste the power of today.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. @ -Theodore Roosevelt
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.  @ -C. S. Lewis
Don't drift into self-pity because it doesn't solve any problems. Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. @ -Charlie Munger
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to.  @ -C. S. Lewis
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, loose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. @ -Anaïs Nin
Suffering has a price you decide if you are willing to pay it.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. @ -Marcus Aurelius
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. @ -Jewish Proverb
Tears are far more beautiful than anything that you have with you, because tears come from the overflow of your being. @ -Osho
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. @ -Rumi
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. @ -John Vance Cheney
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. @ -Eckhart Tolle
In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Much of our pain or misery in life stems from our own outlook towards the situation. A paralyzed person can also be happy, so can be a financially poor family. @ -Amit Ahlawat
What may be hard now will make you stronger in the long run.
There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same. @ -Joyce Meyer
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
Growth is simply learning how to suffer gracefully, elegantly and not letting your pain completely tear you apart. @ -Nikita Gill
Breakups can be sad, but sometimes tears are the price we pay for a freedom we need. @ -Steve Maraboli
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
Those things that hurt, instruct. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Adversity introduces a man to himself.
Things that break – be they bones, hearts, or promises – can be put back together but will never really be whole. @ -Jodi Picoult
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. Alain de Botton. @ -The Architecture of Happiness
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
At times, the fearless suffer. Those who live with fear, suffer always.
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me lay an invincible summer. @ -Albert Camus
Tears water our growth. @ -William Shakespeare
If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. @ -Leo Tolstoy
Great success requires greater sacrifice. @ -Sachin Prabhu
Emotional pain is not something that should be hidden away and never spoken about. There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it's first brought out into the open. @ -Steve Aitchison
Getting hurt efficiently means we're hurt, how can we efficiently learn a lesson in this moment so that the next time you will be heartbroken, which you will be, it's inevitable, you're better equipped to deal with it. @ -Lilly Singh
Face your fears, endure its pain and they will be re-written in the form of pride and dreams. @ -Greg Plitt
The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it. @ -Aella
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. @ -Jane Austen
We can choose to stop in a place of pain and suffering, never to move past it. Or we can choose to move past it, never to stop for pain and suffering.
Life is full of suffering. Yes. Why should it be otherwise? Embrace. Endure. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Embrace your suffering tenderly. @ -Thich Nhat Hanh
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. @ -George Jean Nathan
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness. @ -Kahlil Gibran
Don't let today's disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow's dreams.
Take time by yourself to feel the fullness of your sadness and thank it before releasing it.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?  @ -John Keats
Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it's actually you who are ruining your life. It's such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a disastrous way to make go through life. @ -Charlie Munger
It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence. @ -Seneca
How you relate to the issue is the issue. @ -Ron Hulnick
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?  @ -Jodi Picoult
I won't let pain, turn my heart into something ugly. I will show you that surviving can be beautiful. @ -Christy Ann Martine
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again. @ -Bret Harte
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. @ -Mark Manson
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. @ -Charles Dickens
Sentimentality and emotionalism are the most destructive things. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
Darlin' you don't need all that armor. Because what lives inside, they can't break. @ -J. M. Storm
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
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
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. @ -Edgar Allan Poe
Let a little laughter into your heart, and a little more until laughing feels more natural than crying.
There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering. @ -Alan Watts
You aren't really being rejected – you're being redirected. @ -Mel Robbins
No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding. @ -Ajahn Chah
That which hurts, also instructs. @ -Benjamin Franklin
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. @ -Cesare Pavese
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. @ -John C. Maxwell
The axe never remembers. The tree never forgets. @ -Paulo Coelho
Turn your wounds into wisdom. @ -Oprah Winfrey
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it – that is what you must do. @ -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You are stronger than you know. In the depths of despair you find your true strength within. @ -Asad Meah
The root of all suffering is attachment. @ -Buddha
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. @ -Seneca
Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change. @ -Tony Robbins
Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy. @ -Rumi
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. @ -John Updike
If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better. @ -Angela Duckworth
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. @ -Kenji Miyazawa
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. @ -Osho
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens. @ -Michel de Montaigne
Misfortune is virtue's opportunity. @ -Seneca
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. @ -Arthur Schopenhauer
When there is no resistance of any kind then there is no psychological problem. @ -Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. @ -Erma Bombeck
Attachment is the root cause of all misery – and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery. @ -Osho
Move toward resistance and pain. @ -Robert Greene
Suffering is a test. That's all it is. Suffering is the true test of life. @ -David Goggins
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
The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle. @ -Janet S. Dickens
Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. @ -Natalie Goldberg
Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful. @ -Robert Greene
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. @ -Janet Fitch
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends. @ -Adam Braun
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. @ -Marquis de Sade
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. @ -Alain de Botton
Let go of the past. @ -Robert Greene
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. @ -Denis Waitley
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
If you're bored with life, you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. @ -Lou Holtz
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
Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. @ -Robert Greene
If you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, illuminate and light it up yourself.
Your comfort zone is your danger zone. @ -Greg Plitt
Begin holding your focus on one pure good thing and the poison of painful thoughts will seep out of you.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. @ -Malcolm X
Heaven or hell; it's all in the mind. @ -D. Muthukrishnan
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours. @ -Shannon Alder
Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term, so you can get paid in the long term. @ -Naval Ravikant
The pain and boredom we experience in the initial stage of learning a skill toughens our minds. @ -Robert Greene
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 art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. @ -Bernard M. Baruch
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. @ -Horace
No man is hurt but by himself. @ -Diogenes
If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent. @ -Joe Dispenza
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing. @ -Fight Club
Every single human being who is alive has felt this kind of pain, hopelessness, and loneliness at one time or another. We are all connected through this shared pain and struggle. @ -Leo Babauta
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose. @ -Billie Holiday
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings. @ -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages. @ -Baltasar Gracian
The true greats will always overcome adversity. @ -Conor McGregor
Start living in discomfort. Gradually increase it little by little, and you will steadily grow. If you want sudden growth, deluge yourself in great discomfort and do not retreat from it. The more discomfort you are willing to bear, the more you can grow. @ -The Ancient Sage
Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings. @ -Mahavira
What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. @ -Richard Wilbur
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. @ -Fred Rogers
It's pain that changes our lives. @ -Steve Martin
There is no education like adversity. @ -Benjamin Disraeli
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. @ -Jeb Dickerson
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. @ -Duke Ellington
We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. @ -Cesar Chavez
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. @ -Seneca
Spend some time in the depths of your pain for a time but eventually let yourself be distracted to let your mind rest.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. @ -Robert Allen
There is a saying in Tibetan, "Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength". No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. @ -Dalai Lama
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. @ -Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.  @ -Hermann Hesse
Nobody can hurt me without my permission. @ -Mahatma Gandhi
Have confidence that things will improve. You need to trust that your sad feelings will lessen with time and effort.
Don't let yourself get comfortable in your misery.
We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering. @ -Ajahn Chah
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. @ -Sophocles
Life is pain, so live it up while you can. @ -Ernest Hemingway
Trying to build a life where you never experience bad feelings is like building a ship that can't handle a storm. @ -Neil Strauss
The pain is an opportunity to resurrect our true selves.
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
Pain is a great motivator. @ -Naval Ravikant
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge. @ -Eckhart Tolle
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. @ -African Proverb
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative you can get beyond your pain or negativity. @ -Yoko Ono
Be grateful in spite of your suffering. @ -Jordan Peterson
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. @ -Bertrand Russell
Love is the sweetest pain inside. @ -Tarkan
Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
We need never be ashamed of our tears. @ -Charles Dickens
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise. @ -Chinese Proverb
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way. @ -Gregg Popovich
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. @ -Seneca
Great things never came from comfort zones.
If going back to sleep is the only good thing you can think of then do it and try again tomorrow. Sorrow dries out over time.
Where the wound has been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere. @ -Jane Austen
Where there is love, there is vulnerability to pain. @ -Laura Ramirez
Pain is a teacher that commands the attention of every student. A lesson learned from suffering is not easily forgotten. @ -The Stoic Emperor
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. @ -David Foster Wallace
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. @ -Michel de Montaigne
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. @ -Seneca
You can't really disappoint yourself. You can do stupid stuff that can lead you to bad consequences, but knowing that you are who you are can ease the pain.
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.  @ -C. S. Lewis
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. @ -David Richo
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
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. @ -Jean de La Fontaine
Maybe part of loving is learning to let go. @ -The Wonder Years
Through love all that is bitter will be sweet. Through love all that is copper will be gold. Through love all dregs will become wine. Through love all pain will turn to medicine. @ -Rumi
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant. @ -Jordan Peterson
Laugher is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. @ -Charlie Chaplin
When hope suddenly dies it leaves a scar and a throbbing pain of disappointment.
Every negative situation contains the possibility for something positive, an opportunity. It is how you look at it that matters. @ -Robert Greene
If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don't do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain. @ -Osho
There's no love without pain. @ -Irving Stone
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
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
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and effort, and we control both. @ -Dwayne Johnson
It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. @ -Willie Nelson
If it hurts it's probably doing you good. If it's pleasant, it's most likely wrong. @ -John Graves
Life eventually humbles us all. The longer it takes, the harder the fall. @ -Ed Latimore
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
It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. @ -Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, doesn't matter. And some people recover and others don't. @ -Charlie Munger
Life is meant to be full of fun not pain, turn towards the good feelings.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. @ -Friedrich Nietzsche
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
To stay inside your head just feeds sorrow, shrink it by seeking laughter and joy.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain. @ -Aristotle
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. @ -Lee Brown
That pain you feel is your heart breaking, remember how bad it hurts when they see you shining and want to come back.
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend. @ -Heather Brewer
It's not who's the best – it's who can take the most pain. @ -Steve Prefontaine
