Change Is Painful Quotes

#1. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.

Rod Dreher

#2. A show has to change and evolve. Sometimes the change is painful, but that doesn't mean it's not good or correct.

Stephen Nathan

#3. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#4. Change is painful, moving on is painful but nothing is more painful then being were you dont belong

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#5. All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Heather King

#6. Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.

Demi Lovato

#7. Grace changes us and change is painful".

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Dave Ramsey

#9. Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

Kristin Kreuk

#10. The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

Joe Abercrombie

#11. How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#12. Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

Gary Rohrmayer

#13. When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.

P. Wish

#14. Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

David Wilkerson

#15. Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant ... it is always painful

Jodi Picoult

#16. We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

May Sarton

#17. New beginnings can be painful ends. What your attitude is changes ends into new beginnings.

Maurice Duffy

#18. Change sucks. No one's going to argue about that. Change is hard and painful and sometimes we wind up losing things we wanted to keep forever.

Seanan McGuire

#19. We stand in the bathroom and look at our face and say, "Stop getting old, face. I command you!" and it doesn't listen. Change is the only constant. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being.

Amy Poehler

#20. Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

Henri Nouwen

#21. All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Mimi Kennedy

#22. Change is always preceded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's tough for me.

Mel Gibson

#23. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Mary Shelley

#24. Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Sarah McLachlan

#25. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

Dalai Lama

#26. I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.

Uma Thurman

#27. Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

#28. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

Mel Gibson

#29. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

Graham O'Connell

#30. Meaningful change is always painful. It's always resisted. And it's always awkward.

Amy Daws

#31. Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Charles Spurgeon

#32. If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die?

Jo Nesbo

#33. Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.

Jen Calonita

#34. we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Margaret Silf

#35. The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Ed Murray

#36. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#37. You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.

Gene Edwards

#38. Pain is essential for survival, pain is the tangible material that creeps into our mind and screams at us to recognize that something is terribly wrong.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#39. The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

Adrienne Rich

#40. Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

David W. Earle

#41. It is doubtful that real personal change can occur without the conscious and painful process of self-criticism that is required to reject power and ego.

Janis Birkeland

#42. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

Adrien Brody

#43. Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

A. C. Benson

#44. In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.

Amit Ray

#45. While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one's bowels.

Painful change just takes time.

Jessica Watts