Quotes About Painful Change

#1. 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

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

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#3. 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

#4. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.

Ann D. Clark

#5. People change and that, given time, all wounds fade to just an occasional painful throb."
~Atlantean God and 1st Dark-Hunter Acheron Parthenopaeus~

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Na

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

Heather King

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Chogyam Trungpa

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

Demi Lovato

#13. 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

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

Kristin Kreuk

#15. On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

Richard Henry Horne

#16. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

#17. 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

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

Flannery O'Connor

#19. It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

Harriet Lerner

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

Amit Ray

#21. We cannot change past events, no matter how painful, but we can always intend how we 'feel' about them and heal ourselves.

Robert Anthony

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

A. C. Benson

#23. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Iyanla Vanzant

#24. Your ability to navigate & tolerate change & its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness & general well-being

Amy Poehler

#25. 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

#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. Your ability to navigate & tolerate change & its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness & general well-being

Amy Poehler

#28. I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

Kenneth Clarke

#29. 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

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

Sarah McLachlan

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

Mary Shelley

#32. Sometimes it takes a broken heart for us to finally let Jesus in. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. - Proverbs 20:30 GNT

Kyle Idleman

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. Seasons change. Though humans are creatures of habit, we can easily adapt if we allow our minds to be like water. The people who have lived there can live elsewhere and will be okay. It's only when we hold onto the past that change becomes painful.

N'Dia Rae

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

Mimi Kennedy

#37. I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

Antonia Fraser

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. I'm interested when people will stand up for themselves. I'm always interested in that moment when someone decides it's not good enough, and even though it's painful, they're willing to make a change.

Jennifer Beals

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

Maurice Duffy

#43. 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

#44. Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

Charles Stanley

#45. 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

#46. I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.

Elif Shafak

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Amy Poehler

#50. Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

Zainab Salbi

#51. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

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

Ed Murray

#53. It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Stephen R. Covey

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Ah, the painful truth: Fate was a cosmic toilet. It was the nature of the universe to flush sluggish things that failed to exercise free will. Stasis was stagnancy. Change was velocity. Fate - a sniper that preferred a motionless target to a dancing one.

Karen Marie Moning

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

Jen Calonita

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Amy Daws

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

Graham O'Connell

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.

Bruce Sterling

#66. 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

#67. Man will never reach the higher wisdom,
If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

Toba Beta

#68. He smiled a slow, painful smile. 'Change, HG.' 'You think?' 'Oh, yes. All sorts of things are happening.

Anonymous

#69. In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

Laurence J. Peter

#70. WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

Linda Alfiori

#71. We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

Anita Sarkeesian

#72. Nothing so stubborn could change until it became more painful to avoid than to confront.

Edward St. Aubyn

#73. Frustration, despair, angst, anxiety, hurt, grief, unhappiness, envy, jealousy, and all the other painful emotions are catalysts of change in our lives. They motivate us to do things differently, to change our status quo.

Kate Levinson

#74. I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Jon Stewart

#75. - "How about flipping a coin;" she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around and
looked at her irritated.
- "That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and you
know damn well how painful that can be!"
Sand of Passion

Georgia Kakalopoulou

#76. I would do anything I could to go back to that time when we could have been together and change the way I acted. I'd change it, because we were fated to be together however brief, however unbelievable, however painful, however flawed.- Jack Howard

K.A. Linde

#77. Most people would rather complain about some painful life pattern than dare to meet the level of their own consciousness responsible for its repeated appearance ... and therein do the work needed to change it once and for all.

Guy Finley

#78. 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

#79. Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves.

Gary Zukav

#80. Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem for
another

Gyan Nagpal

#81. In Proverbs 20:30, the Bible basically says it sometimes takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. And sometimes it does.

Kyle Idleman

#82. 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

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

David W. Earle