Best pain & greater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone we’ve trusted with our heart. No one.”

Heart Pain Hurt Greater Risk Trusted Personal Relationships

Author:Dave Earley

“I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.”

Believe Pain Faith Fall Loss Doubt Greater Trouble Sorrow Gains Rain Crosses Strive Height Bees Anguish Swarms Hives

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

“Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.”

Ifs Action Pain Courses Pleasure Greater Balance Painful Pleasant You Choose

Book:The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws

Source: The Works of Plato: Charmides, Lysis, Other Dialogues and the Laws

“Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?”

World Should Pain Challenges Greater Faults Bars Tyranny Cruelty Sovereignty Disdain

Author:Emilia Lanier

“[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.”

Years Believe May Doe Might Pain Lasts I Believe Grows Hours Space Greater Minutes Overcoming Temporary Overcoming Pain Pain Is Temporary

Author:Lance Armstrong

“It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.”

Should Persons Seems Pain Greater Honest Honesty Being Honest Indolence Incline Knaves

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.”

Firsts Children Age Pain Evil Greater Weak Breaths Old Age Afraid Of Death

Author:Charles Churchill

“While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.”

“There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.”

Pain Past Remember Grief Greater Past Happiness

Book:Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

Source: Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition

“Greater is he who suffers through the pain and comes through the other side improved. Greater is he who accepts discouragement and keeps forward momentum, never retreating. Greater is he who sees the light at the end of the tunnel and keeps their eye on the light. Greater is he who gets knocked off his feet and gets back up, dusts himself off and gets back in the fight. Life is tough, but you are stronger.”

“The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?”

Knows Pain Greater Possibility Powerless

Author:Andrew Sean Greer

“To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.”

Should Pain Lasts Evil Causes Poverty Greater Sorrow Grieving Melancholy Morbid Forerunners

Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781

“the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.”

World Heart Long Hard Facts Pain Desire Suffering Greater Weakness Wicked Long Life Careless Momentary Cripples Shirk

Author:Marah Ellis Ryan

“The more enchanted the idyll, greater must be the pain of its ending.”

Pain Greater Enchanted

Author:Georgette Heyer

“Pain is a holy angel who shows us treasures that would otherwise remain forever hidden; through him men and women have become greater than through all the joys of the world. It must be so and I tell myself this in my present situation over and over again. The pain of suffering and of longing, which can often be felt even physically, must be there, and we cannot and need not talk it away. But it needs to be overcome every time, and thus there is an even holier angel than the one of pain; that is, the one of joy in God.”

Men World Needs Shows Pain Joy Suffering Felt Situation Forever Greater Holy Men And Women Angel Overcoming Longing Treasure Often Is Present Situation

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to raise all children to a minimally decent standard of living.”

Children Made Country Facts Pain Energy Wealth Poverty Greater Standards Shame Raises Psychological Decent Ethical Standards Of Living Psychological Pain American Poverty

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.”

People Character Hands Earth Pain Purpose Suffering Greater Our Lives Perspective Sorrow Depth Surface Accomplishment Yield Shallow Harvest Sufferings In Life

Author:Billy Graham

“Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."”

People Thinking Pain Life Is Religious Grief Greater Trouble Mines Comfort Weight Rose Aids Affliction Torment Consolation Martyr Solace

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.”

Men Sometimes Pain Greater Standing Dignity Rising Eclipse Downfall Slippery Indignity

Author:Francis Bacon

“The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.”

Men Sometimes Pain Greater Dignity Rising Indignity

Book:The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding. By J. Locke ... Essays ... By Lord Bacon. With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“Strength of the Heart comes from knowing that the pain that we each must bear is part of the greater pain shared by all that lives. It is not just 'our' pain, but 'the' pain and realizing this awakens our universal compassion”

Heart Pain Realizing Compassion Knowing Greater Bears Universal

Book:A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life

Source: A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life

“sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit”

Men Sometimes Feelings Care Pain Spirit Suffering Belief Greater Injustice Core Pursuit

Author:Darren Shan

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