Ability Quote by Gay Hendricks

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always…

— Mark Manson

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

— Robert Wright

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

— Dana Reeve

“Pain and dysfunction get passed down from generation to generation. A mixture of genetic inheritance and environmental circumstance ensures that our lives unfold according…

— Kristin Neff

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are…

— Nancy Gibbs

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid…

— Brenda Shoshanna

Not all pains are misery, we experience some to prepared us for the goods to come, so we can do whatever it takes to…

— Blaze Olamiday

When we feel pain, everything else around us seems weighed down with our suffering.

— Anonymous

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

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with…

— Carrie-Anne Moss