When The Pain To Change Quotes

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

Ed Foreman

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

Moshe Kasher

#3. Pain is the precursor to change.

Mel Gibson

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Rick Warren

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#16. 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

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

Helen Fielding

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

Wm. Paul Young

#19. 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

#20. This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change ... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you - the fear just leaves

Erykah Badu

#21. I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him.

Dean Koontz

#22. So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

Isaac Watts

#23. We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

Henry Cloud

#24. It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself....
If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals.

Shelley Jackson

#25. When the pain and sadness brought me to a breaking point, I would cry, and although my tears didn't change the circumstances, they lightened the burden and enabled me to get up and go on again.

Terry Caffey

#26. Change happens when one individual has had enough pain and finds the inner resolve to ask for help and make a difference.

Mike Ferguson

#27. From my experience and observing a lot of other people that often times that only happens - a transformational experience or shedding of the skin - happens when we are at the end of our road and there is pain involved. We have to change or we continue to live in that almost intolerable pain.

Ray McKinnon

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Eric Thomas

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

Kjiva

#33. 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

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

Tony Gaskins

#35. 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

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

Joyce Meyer

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

Ludacris

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence.
What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Joseph Conrad

#43. 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

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

Kid Cudi

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

Elizabeth Lesser

#46. 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

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

Jen Calonita

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Stephen G. Post

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

David W. Earle

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

Andrew Matthews

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

Joyce Meyer