Quotes about Pain
The pain you are going through is not what will determine your future; your future will be determined by who you are as you go through your pain.
— Marianne Williamson
When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
— Marianne Williamson
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation
— Marianne Williamson
A moment of crisis can be a moment of growth, as the wounded self prepares to transform. From the chrysalis of my pain, I will forge my healing—the wings of my newborn self.
— Marianne Williamson
Any person, economic system, or political establishment that fails to concern itself with the pain of others is out of alignment with spiritual truth. And where there is a lack of spiritual alignment, chaos is inevitable
— Marianne Williamson
we receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.
— Mark Driscoll
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
— Mark Twain
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
— Aristotle
The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.
— Aristotle
Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
— Alain de Botton
Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.
— Anonymous