Charles Dickensįace your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. 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. Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. “Move toward resistance and pain.” – Robert Greene One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. We can learn and change in a state of pain and suffering, or we can evolve in a state of joy and inspiration. 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. 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. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory no cross, no crown. God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world. This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. “Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.” – Tim Fargo We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Some people learn to embrace it, to love it. If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Walter Anderson AdvertisementsĪll pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured if severe, it will without doubt be brief. 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. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. We’ve all felt misunderstood during times of great pain. “Pain is meant to wake us up.” – Jim Morrison Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. Charles Bukowskiīut who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. Anyone who says differently is selling something. I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. “Strange how we decorate pain.” – Margaret Atwood
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