Overcoming Pain Quotes

“I'd never known that I could feel this broken and whole at once.”
― Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom

“A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Stars are born out of dark moments.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The thorny path to greatness is better than the rosy path to mediocrity.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life hands us storms so we can paint rainbows.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I must persevere through all that causes me pain and move beyond the memories that constantly haunt me. I concentrate on smiling, ensuring the smile on my lips never fades, even though the pain occasionally resurfaces to remind me that things will never be the same.”
― Rolf van der Wind

“Rise above your fears and you rise above your world.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The soul's hands carry the heart's burdens.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Pain is an assignment for everyone; no one gets to escape pain and suffering.”
― Nontobeko Jobe

“Don’t fear pain and do not run from it but allow it to transform you to the person you were created to be.”
― Nontobeko Jobe

“i. In the new version of my new story, the actor cast in the role of my heart will no longer be asked to play arsonist to crumbled ruins in order to collect on the insurance policy of all she risked in the name of love.

ii. She will also no longer feel the need to erect skyscraper scaffolds to prop up walls too weary to hold the weight of their own aspirations.

iii. Instead, she will plant riotous gardens of wildflowers, sing the shooting stars home to her chest, and discover that the secret to healing has been long naps and deep joy all along.

iv. She will, of course, continue to risk it all for love. Why would she possibly do anything but that?

v. Despite all the burning she has known, despite all the ways the ashes of her hopes have fallen ungracefully from great heights, she has always been born for the rise.

vi. She remembers now that she has never fallen without being caught. My god, her people have such strong arms.

vii. She knows that sometimes, it’s not so much rising as being lifted and held until the singed feathers grow back and the wings are strong enough to spread wide and fly again.

viii. Hands at your back, her dearheart says. She feels them there and knows she is never alone.

ix. Every story that dies gives birth to another. This has been the way of stories since the beginning of time.

x. The actor newly cast in the role of my heart is ready for a new story to begin.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“You don’t graduate earth by dodging the hard stuff. You outgrow the self that buckles under it.”
― David Maze, 9 Analogies of Consciousness