Pain Quotes

Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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.

Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgment. On the emotional level, it is some form of negativity. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

There are cases in which it is necessary to inflict pain now to avoid greater pain later on, or to gain future pleasure that is worth the current pain.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.