Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains."… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to minimize a person’s hurt without understanding the nature of pain. People often like to categorize how much a person… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“That night, having wriggled down into my futon all alone, I found myself in the grips of a wrenching sadness. I was… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Don’t let your thoughts run away with you, don’t start planning to bail out because you’re worried about the future and how… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress ...… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I wanted to die then I wanted to destroy the body I was trapped in because of what she was no matter… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got… — Neil Pasricha Copy Share Image
“If I had the capacity to withstand instantaneous physical pain, I think I would have even considered taking a razor to my… — Leanne Waters Copy Share Image
When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When the truth is ugly, people try to keep it hidden, because they know if revealed, the damage it will do. So… — Mary Alice Copy Share Image
You feel your strength in the experience of pain. Its all in how you carry it. Thats what matters. Pain is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“When we ignore the pain, it grows bigger and bigger, and like an abscess that is never drained, eventually it will rupture.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If Jeff Mogil and Ron Melzack are right about genetics and pain, fifty years from now, generic Tylenol tablets will seem as… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“My view [is] that what morality boils down to is, 'Don’t harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures… — Shelly Kagan Copy Share Image
“Always look from an angle from which you can find more happiness in it and more joy. Ordinarily our mind always finds… — Osho Copy Share Image
“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Your a great guy , I admire you , you were my everything , my breath of light , but now look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There may be no issue that better illustrates the differences between Republicans and Democrats than energy. Consider it the 'all of the… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
In Scandinavia probably the most worker-supportive part of the planet, they have the highest rate of chronic pain and worker-related disability. So… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I don't like the way question marks look. They're really ugly. They look like blots. At some other point in my life,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image