Joy And Pain Quotes

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self. — Vivian Amis

Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred. — Glennon Doyle Melton

Yes, it's worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123 — Kate Sherwood

Strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same. — Tupac Shakur

And with pain and joy, their hearts learned to hear that double lesson which leads to a happy death. — Albert Camus

Love is the greatest magician in the universe; it can turn pain into pleasure, agony into power, sorrow into joy, and gloom into laughter. — Matshona Dhliwayo

But life is just as much pain and mess as it is joy and order. Probably a lot more mess than order, too. — Robert McCammon

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? — Laini Taylor

Sometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears
but we have to defeat it — Meena Khan

I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all. — A.L. Jackson

Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting. — David Joy

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't fake joy. Authentic joy is the kind that grows out of the soil of pain and doubt and fear, because that is the reality of the world. — Holly Ordway

Tell stories that matter. Diction is about characters who don't exist, but their pain and sorrow and joy are very real. — Brenda Rothert

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them. — Kimberly Elise

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't. — Alanis Morissette

Peter Noever is a pain in the ass and a joy in the heart. — Stefan Sagmeister

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

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel ... Food = everything you can imagine. — Susan Powter

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. — T.F. Hodge

True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love — Mother Teresa

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love. — Pythagoras

Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain. — Dorothea Benton Frank

To know your mind, to see your heart,to taste your pain, to touch your dreams, to trace your scars, and to worship your joy...is my sole interest. — Beth McGirt Adams

A glance, a word
and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every bit of pain and joy you have ever known lifts you up, and every moment you have lived comes together, and that is who you are, as you lie dying — Christy Ann Conlin

Art comes from joy and pain ... But mostly from pain. — Edvard Munch

Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow? — Soheir Khashoggi

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell! — Victor Villasenor

joy and love came from so many places and often went hand in hand with pain. — Tracy Ewens

Our pain and mistakes and faults are an integral part of us. They make our joy and successes and qualities all the more significant. — Jasinda Wilder

Allow yourself to experience fully every step of the journey, both the joy and the pain. You're alive. Greet the moment at hand with a grateful heart. — Eleanor Brown

And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy. — M. Scott Peck

God trades our ashes for beauty, and our pain for joy. — T.K. Chapin

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. — Joy Harjo

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. — Joy Page

The joy is not in the presence of pain, but in the knowledge that God is using our pain to refine us and make us better, not bitter — Joe Stowell

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same. — Mary Balogh

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world. — Philip Zaleski

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. — Debra Moffitt

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. — Cate Tiernan

When miracles happen, hope destroys hopelessness, joy overcomes pain, love conquers hate, and faith finds God in the midst of it all. — Cherie Hill

Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting. — Mahatma Gandhi

Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing. — Dean Koontz

In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do what is right and you will be at peace. — Jess Rothenberg

It's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ... — John Geddes

It is in experiencing and accepting the pain of defeat, that we may truly acknowledge the joy of victory. — Andre Bramble

And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; — Kahlil Gibran

Don't set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful. — Debasish Mridha

After the initial pain of releasing our children there comes joy and peace, both for them and us. — Stormie O'martian

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. — Steve Earle

Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is. — Angelique La Fon-Cox

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. — Ingrid Newkirk

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy. — Lois Lowry

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain — O. Carl Simonton

Forgive and be happy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think that pain gives us appreciation of joy - it's a package deal. And I definitely think that the joys of life far outweigh the pain. — Frederick Lenz

Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. — Amy Tan

Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy. — Anonymous

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. — Chuck Palahniuk

There's a great quote in Gus's house, one that both he and I found very comforting: Without pain, we couldn't know joy. - Hazel Grace Lancaster — John Green

The joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. — David Hawkins

We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. — Dana Reeve

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God. — Jim George

The greatest creative power you have on earth ... is to help others. To ease pain and give joy are your finest powers. Kindness is a human miracle. — Anne Rice

There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! — Robert Gilfillan

The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering. — Terry Tempest Williams

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

The Red Kimono tells it all - the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism. — Sandra Dallas

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

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter

No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy. — Patti Smith

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Can we just be grateful for beauty & joy, fascination & tolerance, humour & love, nature & grace, and simply release any anger and pains? — Jay Woodman

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. — Jurgen Moltmann

There's little enough joy, and far too much pain, in a world like this not to appreciate the beauty that comes your way. He — Kate Elliott

There is nothing-
No life,
No joy,
No pain-
There is nothing save opinion,
And opinion be damned. — Stephen Crane

Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain. — Nicholas Sparks

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. — Henry Suso

The memory of the pain did not destroy the reality of the pleasure; grief did not obliterate joy. — Orson Scott Card

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain. — M. Scott Peck

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels. — Jan Hus

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. — Brother Lawrence

May all your joys be pure joys, and all your pain champagne. — Mrs. Graham

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation. — David W. Earle

Choosing joy involves spiritual surrender, and sometimes we would rather hold on to the pain than surrender our egos. — Marianne Williamson

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone. — John Green

Your calling and destiny is where your pain and joy meet — Sunday Adelaja

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself. — Miriam Toews

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy. — David Ault

Cynicism is a powerful anesthetic we use to numb ourselves to pain, but which also, by its nature, numbs us to truth and joy. — Rachel Held Evans

She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb - upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain. — James Baldwin

God knows I've needed enough forgivin' in my life. I love you, and love sometimes comes in pain as well as joy. — Tracie Peterson

Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. — Sathya Sai Baba

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long. — Yann Martel

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. — Ishmael Beah

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. — Garth Brooks