Pain reminds us we’re alive. We carry our bruises and heartbreaks, but also the wisdom that emerges. As laugh therapist Annette Goodheart said, “In order to laugh, you must be able to play with your pain.” May these words offer comfort and courage to anyone hurting. 🌸
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~ Kenji Miyazawa
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. ~ Marcus Aurelius
Even the promiscuous feel pain. ~ Warren Beatty, Born This Day
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~ William Ernest Henley, Poems, Bric-a-Brac
As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever. ~ Katherine Mansfield
Tonight I’m stepping lightly and I’m feeling no pain. ~ Bruce Springsteen
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. I think we should follow a simple rule—if we can take the worst, take the risk. ~ Joyce Brothers
If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life. ~ Evel Knievel
In the country of pain we are each alone. ~ May Sarton
Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble? ~ George Pacaud
You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need. ~ John Lennon, Rolling Stone, 1970
The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope. ~ Janet Jackson
The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world. ~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
Pain comes from the darkness./ And we call it wisdom. It is pain. ~ Randall Jarrell
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it. ~ Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are