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Pain Quotes

    “Suffering can make you selfish, turn you cruel. It can make you feel like there is nothing but you and your anger, the crackle of exam table paper beneath bruised limbs, the way your heart pounds into your mouth when the doctor enters the room with the latest biopsy results.”

    Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms (Page 100)

    Dustin Poirier Quote on Karma Explained

      Dustin Poirier Quote on Karma Explained

      “Karma’s not a b*tch, she’s a mirror.”

      Dustin Poirier

      When what goes around finally comes back around, what arrives can certainly be painful. Life is painful. And many times, what we send out into the world is pain. Pain that comes from personal experience and pain that’s sent by the people we’ve caused pain to. Maybe not intentionally, but because we’re imperfect, suffering creatures who are doing the best we can with what we’ve been given in life. And many times, what we’ve been given is more pain than we’ve learned how to properly manage.

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        “There are no true beginnings but in pain. When you understand that and can withstand pain, then you’re almost ready to start.”

        Leslie Woolf Hedley, via Sunbeams (Page 117)

          “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

          Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey

            “Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self. We need the messy, muddy past, the muck of our human life—the combination of every hurt, wound, loss, and unfulfilled desire blended with every joy, success, and blessing to give us the wisdom, the perspective, and the drive to step into the most magnificent expression of ourselves. This is the gift of the shadow.”

            Debbie Ford, The Shadow Effect (Page 142)