Joy Quote by Melody Beattie

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing,…

— Halle Berry

The most painful lesson in life are those that we really need to learn...when you can appreciate them, you have grown in emotional wisdom...

— Maria Micah Rosales

The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.

— Laini Taylor

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true…

— Eric Maisel

I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were…

— Ernest Hemingway

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for…

— Dominique Moceanu

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay…

— Julia Cameron

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

— Goldust

Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful…

— Melody Beattie

“I’ve learned that the worst pain, fear, and torment I’ve ever experienced has only deepened my ability to experience joy. I feel this even…

— Martha Beck

Whenever I went to an historical moment that was sad or where something terrible happened, it was, for me, a learning moment, a teaching…

— Fred D'Aguiar