Top 82 Pain Purpose Quotes
#1. I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
Neil Sheehan
#2. Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.
Steve Maraboli
#3. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.
Paulo Coelho
#4. I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But
Jeff Lindsay
#5. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.
Frank Herbert
#6. This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which I certainly have not intended for this purpose.
Franz Kafka
#7. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
Tom Althouse
#8. Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.
Jill Bolte Taylor
#10. Your calling and destiny is where your pain and joy meet
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? ... The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
#12. Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
Lord Acton
#13. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#14. Files of the past can be changed through shock, encouragement or pain
Sunday Adelaja
#15. We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain.
Brodi Ashton
#16. Pain has a purpose. It makes us stronger. More compassionate. Able to love more deeply than we thought possible. If we let it, it makes us better people.
D. Nichole King
#17. Devotion to goal, knowing your purpose and calling helps you go through pain, hindrance and crisis
Sunday Adelaja
#18. The whole purpose of letting pain be pain is this: to let go of pain. By entering into it, we see that we are strong enough and capable enough to move through it. We find out that it ultimately has a gift for us.
Matthew Fox
#19. And if you're diligent in the process of grieving, once it has fulfilled its purpose, the pain peters out and personal power replaces it. Grieving can be a pathway leading to self-empowerment.
Sebastian De Assis
#20. Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.
Akhenaton
#21. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.
Eric Ludy
#22. Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
Kay Warren
#23. Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.
James A. Moore
#24. Regardless of what we go through in life, there is always purpose wrapped within the pain.
O. J. Brigance
#25. Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life.
Bryant McGill
#26. You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Whatever I learned,
Whatever I knew,
Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
Away in some dilemma,
Always in some confusion,
The purpose of this life,
Seems like an illusion!
Mehek Bassi
#28. Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life
Dainin Katagiri
#31. Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
Bill W.
#32. I pinched the bridge of my nose and prayed for patience. Sometimes I felt like Di was a pain in the ass on purpose.
B.B. Reid
#33. Why sacrifice the innocent?
Why crucify mankind,
Is it just life, or the deeds of an egocentric God?
Why create a thief, the monster that kills the soul?
What is the purpose of pain and suffering?
Is it just life or the sick mind of an egocentric God?
Quetzal
#34. A feeling that all his hard decisions, all the pain and loss and spilled blood, had not been for nothing, after all. There was a reason. There was a purpose. There was life and love.
Stephen King
#35. Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
#37. I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.
Jenim Dibie
#38. What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
#39. Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all.
Douglas Wilson
#40. My purpose is far greater than my pain.
Foxy Brown
#41. Those people gave in to their pain because they couldn't find purpose - their torture was meaningless, and when you can't find reason in life, you tend to give up on it.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence
Donal Ryan
#43. All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.
Pierce Brown
#44. We can either see our circumstances as a set of random cruelties and then allow those hardships to turn us into bitter victims; or we can recognize the fact that, though we may never comprehend why hard things happen, they do, and when they do, we can reach for a larger purpose beyond the pain.
Amy Purdy
#45. One of the reasons people perish without a vision is that they cannot endure the pain and cost required to achieve any worthwhile purpose.
Danny Silk
#46. Most of the equipment in the gym looked like it belonged in Christian's "Red Room of Pain." I didn't think NYSC was a front for a BDSM club, so there must be another purpose behind the various contraptions; I was just clueless as to what that purpose was.
Genna Rulon
#47. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
Philip Gourevitch
#48. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca Solnit
#49. Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials
Sunday Adelaja
#50. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.
Haruki Murakami
#51. I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#53. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. He does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.
Max Lucado
#55. what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.
Nikki Rowe
#56. Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.
Henry Cloud
#57. As we begin to transform, illness and pain can also be seen as a "messenger" for spiritual growth. What does this illness mean? What can I learn from this? Why is the occurring in my life
Teresa DeCicco
#59. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
Janette Oke
#60. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...
Mehek Bassi
#61. Genuine surrender says, "Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This level of maturity does not come easy.
Rick Warren
#62. Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.
Adam Silvera
#63. In this way, a permanent energy field of a pure and high frequency will arise between you. No illusion, no pain, no conflict, nothing that is not you, and nothing that is not love can survive in it. This represents the the fulfillment of the divine transpersonal purpose of your relationship.
Eckhart Tolle
#64. The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.
Ann Brasco
#65. Getting into God's stride means nothing less than oneness with Him. It takes a long time to get there, but keep at it. Don't give up because the pain is intense right now - get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose.
Oswald Chambers
#66. But even the worst earthly pain and heartache doesn't last into the heavenly realm. And it all serves a higher purpose.
Wendy Higgins
#67. Father, if this problem, pain, sickness, or circumstance is needed to fulfill your purpose and glory in my life or in another's, please don't take it away." This
Rick Warren
#68. The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality
Robert W. Firestone
#69. I'm clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope.
Tucker Elliot
#70. Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. Helping people who are going through what I've been through makes me feel like [my pain] wasn't in vain. It gives the pain I went through a sense of purpose.
Katie Ganshert
#72. The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.
Peace Pilgrim
#73. In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
Mark Kurlansky
#74. Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.
Bryant McGill
#75. Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.
Max Lucado
#76. God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.
Rick Warren
#77. Let your pain birth your purpose. Let your mess become your message. Let this be a stepping-stone and not a stumbling block. Change
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
#78. I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.
Daniel Beaty
#80. With feet on solid ground, we walk across stumbling blocks, yet we survive! Through eyes that cloud with tears of pain or struggle, yet we survive! With hands that touch the thorns of life, yet we survive! Through faith and purpose and face as flint, YET WE SURVIVE!
Lorna Jackie Wilson
#81. When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be two steps forward and one back.
Elena D. Calin
