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“Lord, help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunities to grow as people and become more like you.”

People Helping Pain Opportunity Grows Accepting Lord Like You Conflict Each Day

Author:Mother Teresa

“There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.”

Art Whole Pain Language Attitude Quality Struggle Materials Conflict Function Paint Painter

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.”

Men World Soul Pain This World Fame Conflict Weight Infinite Ancient Burden Immortal Great Souls Ancient Times

Book:Five Books of Song

Source: Five Books of Song

“The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm to kids comes from being subjected to conflict between parents. The longer that lasts, and the more severe it is, the worse it is for your children. If you truly want to shield your children from the pain of divorce, recognize that the more you take the high road with your spouse, the better job you'll do.”

“The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.”

World Pain Suffering Jesus Offers Conflict Absence Despite Solace

Author:David E. Sorensen

“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.”

Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance

“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.”

“In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.”

Way Pain Purpose Energy Fields Divine Pure Conflict Illusion Arise Permanent Fulfillment Our Relationship Frequency No Pain Energy Fields

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.”

Ifs Mind Heart Action Pain Causes Meditation Impossible Conflict Focused Engaged

Book:Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

“Lord, help us to see in your crucifixion and resurrection an example of how to endure and seemingly to die in the agony and conflict of daily life, so that we may live more fully and creatively. You accepted patiently and humbly the rebuffs of human life, as well as the torture of the cross. Help us to accept the pains and conflicts that come to us each day as opportunity to grow as people and become more like you-make us realize that it is only by frequent deaths of ourselves, and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully, only by dying with you that we can rise with you.”

“There are so many people in pain because of the Syrian conflict. Ten million trying to live in camps that are barely set up for three.”

People Trying Pain Three Millions Ten Conflict Camps

Author:Chad Urmston

“Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.”

Trying Happens Pain Beautiful Sides Knowing Conflict Essentials Helpful Cycles Something Beautiful

Author:Jaime Murray

“To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.”

Author:Ira Sachs

“I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.”

Pain Games Attention Conflict Okay Resolve Lenses Meditating Inner Conflict Game Over

Author:Mark Coleman

“Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.”

Reason Stories Problem Christian Pain Suffering Evil Trouble Conflict Difficulty Tragedy Hardship Problem Of Evil Pain Suffering

Author:Greg Koukl

“Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence said that the purpose of literature was to expand our sympathies. To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. And this conflict cannot be easily reconciled. The tension is always there as a kind of a pain in the human condition.”

Men Giving Kind Dream Reality Pain Purpose Literature Enemy Conflict Agree Obligation Tension Human Condition

Author:John Updike

“I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.”

Years Made Hard Pain Lasts Fighting Felt Difficult Struggle Battle Conflict Bros Scheduling Warner Bros Uphill Battles

Author:Emma Watson

“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”

Life Needs Wisdom Pain Existence Accepting Darkness Knowing Doubt Conditions Dying Acceptance Cost Conflict Consequence Court Live Life Stubborn

Book:The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

Source: The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman

“If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.”

Source: The Collected Edition: The quiet American

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

Want Inspiration Motivational Pain Motivation Positive Duty Habit Conflict Everyday Golden Golden Rule Without Pain Workplace Conflict

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a hard, short conflict...Yes there is no Emily in time or on earth now. Yesterday we put her poor, wasted, mortal frame quietly under the chancel pavement. We are very calm at present. Why shoud we be otherwise? The anguish of seeing her suffer is over; the spectacle of the pains of death is gone by; the funeral day is past. We feel she is at peace. No need now to trouble for the hard frost and the keen wind. Emily does not feel them.”

World Needs Feels Doe Hard Earth Pain Past Suffering Poor Gone Seeing Trouble This World Wind Conflict Weakness Calm Yesterday Mortals Funeral Anguish Frost Emily Pavement

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“He raised his hand, hesitant, conflict raging in his eyes, and then swiftly brushed the length of my cheekbone with his fingertips. His skin was as icy as ever, but the trail his fingers left on my skin was alarmingly warm - like I'd been burned, but didn't feel the pain of it yet.”

Feels Hands Eye Pain Left Conflict Skins Raised Fingers Warm Rage His Eyes Length Twilight Burned Trails Fingertips Icy Hesitant Twilight Book Cheekbones

Book:Twilight: Twilight

Source: Twilight: Twilight

“Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? … The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”

Matter Earth Pain Life Is Purpose Easy Differences Wonder Conflict Uncertainty Productive Purpose Of Life Anguish

Author:Leo Rosten

“Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.”

Ifs Thinking Pain Causes Waiting Realizing Gone Conflict Delight Dust Settling Fragile Unbearable Astonishing X Men Life Going On

Author:Joss Whedon

“No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you. Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it. Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.”

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.