Joy And Pain Quotes

• Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Reading Poetry, Joy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

  Ann Voskamp

  Pain, Heart, Two

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• Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Sunshine, Dark

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

  Tim Hansel

  Inspirational, Pain, Joy

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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• Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Morning

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• We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

  Kenji Miyazawa

  Inspirational, Positive, Sympathy

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.

  Ann Brashares

  Friendship, Inspirational Love, Pain

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

  Billy Graham

  God, Christian, Religious

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

  Myrtle Reed

  Pain, Joy, Soul

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• Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Pain, Joy, Alive

  Jürgen Moltmann, M. Douglas Meeks (1978). “The open church: invitation to a messianic lifestyle”

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• Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Life, Friendship, Meaningful

  Beverly LaHaye (1995). “The Desires of a Woman's Heart”, Tyndale House Publishers

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• Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Pain, Positivity

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.37, New World Library

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• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

  Tosca Lee

  Pain, Heart, Joy

  Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

  Kevin Carter

  Life, Suicide, Pain

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• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Song

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, God, Christian

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• Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.

  Peter Heller

  Dog, Hurt, Pain

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Uplifting

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• It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Life, Thank You, Thankful

  "After Very Visible Roles, Lupita Nyong'o Looks To Disappear Into Character". Interview with Neda Ulaby, www.npr.org. April 23, 2016.

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• Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't overcome it. On the other hand, if we have peace of mind, even negative experiences do not upset us. Peace of mind is also good for our physical health. Medical experts have found that anger, hatred and fear eat into our immune system. Being calm and relaxed is better for our physical well-being.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Negative Experiences

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• Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Strong, Pain

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• time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Pain, Joy, Terrible

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