“Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call service to God. God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.” MenNeedsPainLife IsJoyPleaseValuableDistressPromotingGod HelpPeace And JoyHelpfulnessService To GodPromoting Peace Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.” PainOrderGrowingLessonsValuableLocalsChineseRestaurantsColumnsYangYin And YangGrowing PainsValuable Lessons Book:Cancer Schmancer Source: Cancer Schmancer
“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.” RealPainPleasureLaborValuableNobleWithout Pain Author:Joseph Addison
“Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.” WantLongMotivationalPainRememberOrderTermPleasureBreakGainsValuableLong TermShort TermBreak Through Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within
“The emotional aspects of a wilderness experience might be compared to a religious experience. It is particularly valuable for those people whose unconscious associations of pain and discomfort in relationships to man render a deity in human form impossible. Christianity is unacceptable to some people because of the use of the human symbol, but some who can't accept Christ can gain a tremendous sense of peace from relating to uncontaminated areas.” PeopleMenHumansUseMightPainFormChristReligiousAcceptingChristianityEnvironmentImpossibleEmotionalGainsAreasAspectValuableSymbolsUnconsciousWildernessAssociationDeitiesDiscomfortReligious ExperienceHuman Form Author:Donald Glover
“I know that I'm very susceptible to getting caught up in storylines like, "I want him to be different. I want him to be more open. I want him to call." We have all of these storylines that kind of take over sometimes, and I think there's real grace and a peaceful heart at the center of just accepting what is, and knowing that everything's OK. The good, the bad, the ugly, the pain, the hurt, the frustration - all of that is valuable and part of this human experience, so we should lean in to all of it.” ThinkingKnowsWantShouldHumansHeartKindDifferentRealSometimesPainHurtAcceptingKnowingGraceCaughtUglyValuablePeacefulFrustrationCaught UpHuman ExperienceWant HimSusceptibleStorylinePeaceful HeartAccepting What Is Author:Sara Bareilles
“You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.” IfsKnowsPainSufferingKnow HowValuableCease Author:Martha Beck