I admire anyone who transforms their pain into power.
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When you're suffering that's when you're most real
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
To remain stable is to refrain from trying to separate yourself from a pain because you know that you cannot. Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain, trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought. There is…
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.
— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, The Man in Black, Ed Harris, imdb.com
Suffering is a resistance to pain.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don't choose whether or not you'll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.
So if your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. First, you cannot achieve them without suffering, and second, insofar as you do achieve them, you are likely to be called on to serve in ways more painful to y…
You are so brave and quiet. I forget you are suffering.
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank…
I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, fifty years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. What I came to realize is that fear, that’s the worst…
Bad things happen, and you can’t do anything about them.
Is it possible to deviate from the path of God has made? Yes, but it’s always a mistake. Is it possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you’ll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experienced it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets; suffering and love.
I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love. I understand that suffering, when it can't be avoided, is here to help me on my way to glory.
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
Grief is like sinking, like being buried.