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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
Pain
That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.
~Rumi
To face in naked openness that which horrifies us is both sweet agony and
tender freedom. ~Amoda Maa Jeevan
Pain is a moment of grace because we surrender into the deep space around us
that is alive with consciousness, and fall into the arms of infinite Grace. ~Fred
La Motte
When I cease to own [physical or emotional pain], I liberate myself from its
bondage and see it simply as it is. ~Tony Parsons
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
~Albert Smith
It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it is what we say to
ourselves about what happens. ~Pema Chodron
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Whatever the past has been, you have a spotless future. ~unknown
What is to give light must endure the burning. ~Victor Frankl
What is the root of pain? Ignorance of yourself. What is the root of desire? The
urge to find yourself. All creation toils for its self and will not rest until it
returns to it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have
to let go at some point in order to move forward. ~C. S. Lewis
And I saw the river
Over which every soul must pass
To reach the kingdom of heaven
And the name of the river was suffering–
And I saw the boat
Which carries souls across the river
And the name of that boat was Love.
~St. John of the Cross
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.
~Felicia Hermans
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a
single power, a single salvation… and that is called loving. Well then, love your
suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that
hurts, nothing else. ~Herman Hesse
When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as
the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will
do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be
stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware. ~ Mel Colgrove
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing
Light of your own Being. ~Hafiz
Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most
unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its
eyes. ~Frederich Buechner
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as
the stone of the fruit must break, that its heard may stand in the sun, so must
you know your pain. ~Kahlil Gibran
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, accutely miserable, racked with
sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a
grand thing. ~Agatha Christie
No ego, no pain. ~Chien-Ju
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy. ~Kahlil Gibran
The more sorrow one encounters, the more joy one can contain. ~Malay
proverb
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against
anguish only produces new forms of anguish. ~Simone Weil
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
~Oscar Wilde
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the
unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
The only thing that identifies you with a painful condition is thought. ~Kenneth
G. Mills
We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes.
We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of
our anger? ~Shantideva
Pain is never permanent. ~Teresa of Avila
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become
good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how
unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see
that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that Existence
wants your life to become a festival. ~Osho
What we cling to is what gives us pain. ~Adyashanti
Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain. ~unknown
Sometimes what hurt us actually free us. ~Yasmin Mogahed
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. ~Paulo
Coelho
The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that
everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. ~M.
Scott Peck
Tears in the eyes and pain in the heart are the two pillars between which we
pass to go within. ~Rumi
These pains that you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Turn them to
sweetness. ~Rumi
Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary. ~Eckhart Tolle
Suffering is exclusively the result of attachment or resistance, it is a sign of
lacking readiness to go on, to flow with life. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj