Pain Can Change You Quotes

#1. Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Dalai Lama

#2. But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

Julie Gregory

#3. I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.

Kaitlin D.S. Cammie

#4. EMOTIONAL PAIN is an inevitable reality of life..while it gives discomfort, it is also a dynamic force to 'awareness'. Pain is a very human way of 'demanding change'.Whenever you feel pain about something, you need to CHANGE something! It is that simple...

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#5. "Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

Christopher Hitchens

#6. I knew if I stayed where I was, nothing would get better; nothing would change. If I wanted to ease the pain, I had to try something different.

Sharon E. Rainey

#7. Pains are not to be relieved
Sorrows are not to fade away
a slight change in the vision
may bring a new experience

Rixa White

#8. 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

#9. Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change.

Wm. Paul Young

#10. We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.

Helen Fielding

#11. She watches as the blood springs from the cut she's making, but it doesn't change anything. Not this time. She swipes again, deeper. Now she feels pain, but will it be enough?

Julia Hoban

#12. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Moshe Kasher

#13. If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Larry Crabb

#14. And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you're gasping for air, when you're begging for pain,
when you're missing something, unable to change the channel.

Kris Kidd

#15. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Hal Elrod

#16. There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

April Gornik

#17. When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

Peter Singer

#18. Pain is a symphony - a complex response that includes not just a distinct sensation but also motor activity, a change in emotion, a focusing of attention, a brand-new memory.

Atul Gawande

#19. Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.

Paul Tonko

#20. Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Ingrid Newkirk

#21. Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

Vicki Myron

#22. ... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.

Olivia Arran

#23. Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow God to heal you, change the way you think, and place deliberate safeguards in your life to protect you.

Craig Groeschel

#24. Everything has its opposite within it.
Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.
Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.
Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope.

Jay Woodman

#25. Sometimes you can't prevent things from happening, and once they're done, you can't change the past. There is a way to deal with the pain, though, because you always control your response. You cry, if you need to. You hurt for a while. But then you look for a way to make a difference.

Carlene O'Neil

#26. Bad habits are easy to develop but difficult to live with. Good habits are difficult to develop, but easy to live with. If you are willing to be uncomfortable for little while, so you can press past the initial pain of change, in the long run, your life will be much better.

Joel Osteen

#27. As best you can, you say yes to the sensations, yes to this change. You remind yourself that this is normal, transformational pain. All is well.

Nancy Bardacke

#28. Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity.

Avicenna

#29. So if you love me, let me go.
And run away before I know.
My heart is just too dark to care.
I can't destroy what isn't there.
Deliver me into my fate -
If I'm alone I cannot hate
I don't deserve to have you ...
My smile was taken long ago
If I can change I hope I never know

Slipknot

#30. You can reach, but you cannot touch. It's reflected in your eye, but the message is never conveyed. It is something you decided for yourself, but that does not change the pain you feel. Even so ... you must protect what you must protect.

CLAMP

#31. Those old Appalachian singers use a falsetto sometimes. They can change their voices to sound high or low or really scratchy. When you're singing, usually you're trying to express some kind of pain or joy. I think that voice allows me to do a lot more of that.

Justin Vernon

#32. I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future.

Julie Eshbaugh

#33. It takes a long time for a heart to heal. The next time passion comes along you won't be so eager to respond. Love and pain go hand in hand and it can change a person forever.

Kate Mathis

#34. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Danielle Steel

#35. The amount of suffering you actually can feel, you want to be able to do something about it. You want to be able to attend to it, to change the system that is making this happen. Because you are so aware of how unnecessary it is, and therein lies the deeper pain.

Caroline Myss

#36. Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life.

Ludacris

#37. It's true that the pain makes people change

Kid Cudi

#38. Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.

Fred Rogers

#39. The greatest evil is that which uses others for its own gratification, which forces change on others and causes pain for nothing more than its own pleasure.

Anonymous

#40. What is it like? Manon asked quietly. 'To love.' 'It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me.'-Asterin/Manon

Sarah J. Maas

#41. We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are.

Ed Foreman

#42. When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.

George Eliot

#43. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

Joyce Meyer

#44. Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There's the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.

Richard Bach

#45. Approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Elizabeth Lesser

#46. There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

Joyce Meyer

#47. There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

Terry Tempest Williams

#48. Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains

Tony Gaskins

#49. Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Lauren Oliver

#50. Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes

Kjiva

#51. So change your mindset. Change how you see pain. I want you to welcome it!

Eric Thomas

#52. 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

#53. There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Rick Warren

#54. Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Jim Butcher

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

Jen Calonita

#56. Love is the key to a massive change. Love unconditionally and everything else will fall in place. Love is like a medicine that cures all pain.

Alisha Broughton

#57. Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.

Michael Specter

#58. We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

Pamela Ribon

#59. That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.

Stephanie Klein

#60. Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond.

Stephen G. Post

#61. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

David W. Earle

#62. Whatever thoughts are causing you pain, they are only thoughts. You can change a thought.

Andrew Matthews

#63. You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

Joyce Meyer

#64. Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#65. Pain is the precursor to change.

Mel Gibson

#66. Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It's pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that's how I knew she was deeply affected.

Renee Carlino

#67. No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain.

Andrew Sean Greer

#68. There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Rick Warren