V. Pain Quotes
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Today, is the beginning of your futureso be as creative as your heart desires in designing your life map.
Life always squashes death. Love always soothes sadness.
I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids.
It’s just another stop on the curvy roadthe final encounterfor the man who has liveddeath is the answer.
Do not judge a woman on her knees_you never know how tall she is when she stands!
Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.
All mothers breed dead children.They shall, perhaps, live later.When no longer dead, they are bornNot—by coincidence, by choice.
Women in love are patheticand I cannot be bothered, for now, I am back to metaphysicsand my armpits gather hair.
Having needs is not evidence of weakness – it is human.
Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.
Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal
You cannot operate from a place of love when you are emotionally unstable.
Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?
Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.
Do human beings have an infinite amount of energy with which to resist death? It is kinder and more accurate to say that they fought until they had no more fight left in them.
The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.
Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.
Sometimes, God drives us to Prayer and Scripture not for answers to the struggles, but for anchors in the storms.
As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.
Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.
Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.
...she could not stick by the golden mean...was always anxious to experiment in extremes...to find out what was enough by indulging herself in too much." (Gordon Lameyer)
Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.
By learning how the mind works, you can dramatically change your experience - regardless of the circumstances of your body.
Yeah, it didn't work like that because lies cannot protect
Hope is the pin-pricked light that tears through the fabric of our dark world.
You said you want to leave a mark on my heart. You did
Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.
God has given you grace. Maybe you should give yourself some too.