No Happiness Without Pain Quotes

#1. There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Isabel Allende

#2. Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. Great Benefactor! How absurd- to want pain! Can there be anyone who doesn't know that pain is a negative quality, and that if you add them up it reduces the sum we call happiness? so it follows ...
But ... nothing follows. The slate is clean. Naked.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

Marianne Williamson

#5. Don't make another's pain the source of your own happiness.

Mark Frost

#6. And time would open up to us and we would be the teachers of one another. All the things that gave you happiness would give me happiness; and I would be the protector of your pain. My power would be your power. My strength the same. But you're dead inside to me, you're cold and beyond reach!

Anne Rice

#7. saying goodbye isnt hard, but saying it to something you care about is whats hard, because you dont want to forget the emmotional pain and happiness they caused in you're life.

Annoymous

#8. After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#9. I believe that in a way, sadness is happiness for there can be no wrong without right, no light without dark, no success without failure, no relief without pain, no love without hatred and no Snow White without the evil queen.

Girl234

#10. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Marion Milner

#11. One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#12. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Attachment strangles freedom and clarity and makes us a puppet to our desires and cravings; attachment is the root of suffering, a root that if left unattended grows into a tree which drops the fruits of anger, greed, envy, dispersion, competitiveness, ego and pain

Evan Sutter

#14. I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.

Adam Silvera

#15. Positive, affirming relationships bring great pleasure while poor relationship brings great pain. Greatest happiness found in good relationships, greatest pain found in bad relationships

Gary Chapman

#16. In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Clayton Christensen

#17. We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

Frederick Lenz

#18. When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.

Mary J. Blige

#19. We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy ... Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion ... without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.

George Vaillant

#20. Everyone wants happiness no one wants pain but you can't have a rainbow without any rain

Anonymous

#21. Everyone likes happiness, no one likes pain. But you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Ingmar Bergman

#22. Did you fail? Try, try again. There is no gain without pain.

Debasish Mridha

#23. There's too much pain and uncertainty in the world. You should seize happiness whenever it comes, and hold onto it for as long as you can.

Anna White

#24. There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn't stop.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

#25. Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

Neal Shusterman

#26. Terrible beautiful combination of happiness and pain.

Kristin Hannah

#27. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#28. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.

Jessica Sorensen

#29. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...

Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

#30. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

Frederick Herzberg

#31. The end of pain we take as happiness.

Giacomo Leopardi

#32. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Anthony Hopkins

#33. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.

Adam Silvera

#34. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

#35. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.

Mayank Kashyap

#36. Your path might be a lonely one ... but, you are NOT alone!

Martin R. Lemieux

#37. Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes.

Orhan Pamuk

#38. To achieve any success we have to endure some pain.

Debasish Mridha

#39. The thing is we can't be attached to anything we've experienced up to this point in our life - any person, any situation, any outcomes, any happiness, any pain - any of it.

Art Hochberg

#40. I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

Rumi

#41. Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.

Bertrand Russell