(2723 quotes found)
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection”
Thomas Paine
“We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.”
Albert Einstein
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Kahlil Gibran
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
Aeschylus
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope”
Henri Nouwen
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
C.S. Lewis
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”
“LIFE is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Peace is the interlude between two wars. You have no rose without a thorn; the diligent picker will avoid the pricks and gather the flower. There is no bee without the sting; cleverness consists in gathering the honey nevertheless.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain”
Bob Marley
