Painful Times Quotes

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

I just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way.

In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.