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These 50 Quotes Will Help You Heal From The Pain Of Your Past

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Holly Riordan
April 5, 2017
“Humor was a good way to hide the pain.”
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Tagged: Pain, humor, Jokes
“Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.”
— Rick Yancey, The Last Star: The Final Book of The 5th Wave
Tagged: Pain, Life, Joy
“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.”
— Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not
Tagged: Pain, Happiness, Growing Up
“Pain — physical, emotional, and otherwise — is the shadow cast by everything you want out of life, the alternative to the result you were hoping for, and the inevitable creator of strength. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before. Pain is there to tell us when we’ve done something badly—it’s a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.”
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
Tagged: Pain, Failure, strength, Teaching
“Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”
— Jim Butcher, White Night
Tagged: Pain, Living, dead
“Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.”
— Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Tagged: Pain, danger, purpose
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
Tagged: Pain, Improvement, Suffering
“Every pain is a lesson.”
— Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare
Tagged: Pain, Lessons, Teaching
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
— Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty
Tagged: Pain, minds, Thoughts
“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”
— Mary Balogh, The Devil's Web
Tagged: Pain, Life, Time
“Why can not we feel too much happiness? Too much joy? Too much pride? Why do we always have to choose too much pain? Maybe it is because pain is the only emotion making us feel alive – making us feel that there is something inside of us is damaged but still works. Maybe it is because we crave for a proof that we are alive.”
— Dyn Lagrimas, Why Are We So Addicted To Holding Onto Our Pain?
Tagged: Pain, Joy, Happiness
“Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple”
— Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
Tagged: Pain, School, Teacher
“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality.”
— Dean Koontz, Velocity
Tagged: Pain, Fear, Embraced
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”
— Tom Hodgkinson, The Freedom Manifesto: How to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Fear, Mortgages, Money, Guilt, Debt, Government, Boredom, Supermarkets, Bills, Melancholy, Pain, Depression, Work, and Waste
Tagged: Pain, Energy, Pleasure
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”
— Geraldine Solon, The Assignment
Tagged: Pain, Loss, Sadness, Hope
“You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn’t. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didn’t want to eat your greens. If you hid them underneath a piece of furniture, sooner or later your mum would discover them because all she had to do was follow the smell. Just like the broccoli, hidden issues begin to smell if they are not brought out into the open air. There is no escape.”
— Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
Tagged: Pain, pretending, Hidden
“Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It’s your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you.”
— S.M. Boyce, Lichgates: Book One of the Grimoire Saga(Volume 1)
Tagged: Pain, Healing, Destruction
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”
— Jamie Magee, Embody: The Insight Series
Tagged: Pain, Living, Lessons
“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to be great after the struggles.”
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Tagged: Pain, Knives, struggles
“Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.”
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, The Guardian
Tagged: Pain, hurt, Selfish