“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ——Mother Theresa
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” ——Jennifer Aniston
“Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.” ——Author Unknown
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ——Kahlil Gibran
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ——Kahlil Gibran
“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.” ——Kahlil Gibran
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” ——Kahlil Gibran
“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.” ——Kahlil Gibran
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” ——Bob Marley
“Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ——Joseph Campbell
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” ——Carl Jung
“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
“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” ——Alan Watts
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ——James A. Baldwin
“The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below,
Is ever first to quail and start
From the slightest pain or equal foe.” ——Bertrand Russell
“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” ——Paul Tillich
“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
“There are no gains without pains.” ——Benjamin Franklin
“Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” ——Mary Tyler Moore
“Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.” ——Anthony Robbins
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.” ——Revelation, The Bible
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.” ——William Penn
“Pain was their body’s way of telling them that they’d pushed themselves to their limits — which was exactly where they were supposed to be.” ——Richard Marcinko
“The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.” ——Author Unknown, 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it.” ——Richard Rohr
“Whoever will have nothing to do with thorns, can never gather roses.” ——Author Unknown
“The brook that flows over stones makes the sweetest music.” ——Author Unknown
“If you remove the rocks, the brook will lose its song.” ——Author Unknown
“Blessings thrive in afflictions’ soil.” ——Author Unknown
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” ——Author Unknown
“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.” ——Author Unknown
“It isn’t the load that weights you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ——Author Unknown
“The darkest clouds often bring the heaviest showers of blessing.” ——Author Unknown
“Jesus is no security against life’s storms, but he is perfect security in them.” ——Author Unknown
“Troubles are not sent to bother us but to better us.” ——Author Unknown
“If we had no trials, there would be no triumphs.” ——Author Unknown
“To get out of difficulty, we must go through it.” ——Author Unknown
“When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.” ——Author Unknown
“The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.” ——Author Unknown
“Trouble is to the triumphant spirit what turbulent water is to a sturdy boat.” ——Author Unknown
“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” ——Author Unknown
“Adversity is the way the great surgeon gives us a face-lift.” ——Author Unknown
“God often digs wells of joy with the spade of sorrow and adversity.” ——Author Unknown
“Tears are often the means by which we see God’s rainbow of promises.” ——Author Unknown
“When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade.” ——Author Unknown
“You will never be the person God wants you to be, if afflictions, trials, and disciplines are taken out of your life.” ——Author Unknown
“Afflictions are but the shadow of God’s wings.” ——Author Unknown
“No trouble can come so near that God is not nearer.” ——Author Unknown
“Only God can change sunsets into sunrises.” ——Author Unknown
“Adversity may sometimes get a Christian down, but only on his knees.” ——Author Unknown
“Jesus spoke of Christianity as a banquet, but never as a picnic.” ——Author Unknown
“God’s grace enables us to ‘face the music’ even when we don’t like the tune.” ——Author Unknown
“One reason that the school of Christ is so tough is that you get the test first and the lesson later.” ——Author Unknown
“Sufferings are to spiritual maturity as the chisel is to sculpture.” ——Author Unknown
“True achievers have made adversity their friend.” ——Author Unknown
“The very same adversity can make one bitter and another better. A thoughtful and prayerful study on how to face adversity can change one’s world.” ——Author Unknown
“Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” ——Hebrews 12:2-3, The Bible (NIV)
“If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him.” ——2 Timothy 2:12, The Bible
“And because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me– to keep me from exalting myself! Concerning this I entreated the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He has said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.’ Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.” ——2 Corinthians 12:7-10, The Bible (NASB95)
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.” ——Sophocles