Comparison Quote by Azar Nafisi

“Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.”

— Azar Nafisi

“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“I've also learned that the more we diminish our own pain, or rank it compared to what others have survived, the less empathic we…

— Brené Brown

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of…

— Bertrand Russell

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation…

— Alexandra Stoddard

“Rather than using pain as a motivator to accurately examine our lives, assume responsibility for our choices, and use our personal power for change,…

— Carmen Renee Berry

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

— Mitch Albom

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

— John Tavener

I have had to really grapple with the fact that, while I wish things could be different at times, I ultimately needed to experience…

— Karyn Kusama

“Pain only shows us we've lost something that was intimately involved in our lives. Why on earth would we do anything other than grieve,…

— Ashley Nikole

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the…

— Pete Holmes

“They didn’t realize that if you take away the possibility of pain, and suffering, failure…you also take away the possibility of happiness, success, and…

— D.W. Ulsterman