Ryan Moreno

Just Because You're In Pain Doesn't Mean You Have To Be Suffering

Suffering is optional.
Heidi Priebe
February 28, 2017
“ You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering, Accepting Happiness, Paradise, Hell
“Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes – even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes – can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Attitude, Perspective, Darkness, Pain, Suffering, Fear
“However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light
Tagged: Tragedy, Pain, Suffering, Overcoming Pain, Moving On
“It’s just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.”
— Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
Tagged: Pain, Heartache, Fighting Back, Suffering, Sadness, hurt
“Every time it rains it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but you still choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Healing, Change, Permanence, Impermanence
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Healing, strength
“You can either experience pain willingly or unwillingly, and pain that’s embraced by choice is much easier to tolerate than pain that must be endured by consequence.”
— Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness
Tagged: Pain, Embracing Pain, Suffering, Grief, Breakups, Moving On
“What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Tagged: Expectations, Happiness, Pain, Suffering, Heaven, Hell
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Suffering, Love
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”
— Vicki Harrison, Grief One Day at a Time
Tagged: Grief, Pain, Suffering
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, caring
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
— James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Tagged: Hate, Pain, Suffering, Grief
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.’”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Moving On, forgiveness
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
— Deepak ChopraVerified account, Twitter
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Love, Openness, Letting People In
“There is life after survival.”
— Buddy Wakefield, Buddy Wakefield - Human The Death Dance
Tagged: Survival, Depression, Suffering, Pain, Getting Better, Life, Moving Forward
“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”
— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Tagged: Love, Suffering, Pain, Resilience, INFP
“You will do things that hurt you just because you’re not ready to feel good yet.”
— Ryan O'Connell, 15 Guaranteed Things That Will Happen To You In Your 20s
Tagged: Life, Pain, Suffering
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be
Tagged: Courage, emotions, vulnerability, Happiness, Joy, Pain, Suffering
“Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don't choose whether or not you'll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Pain, Growth, Life, Suffering, Choice
“Suffering is a resistance to pain.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Resisting Pain, Growth