"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

Pain, Suffering, Growth, Gift, Compassion

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"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

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"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Pain, Illness, Suffering, Humor

"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Pain, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Pain, Truth, Power, Today, Inspirational

"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Pain, Sadness, Meaning, Life

"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Tears, Meaning, Emotion

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Pain, Memory, Past, Identity

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Pain, Suffering, Healing, Emotion

"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Pain, Struggle, Identity, Self

"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Pain, Pleasure, Feeling, Choice

"She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Pain, Emotion, Memory, Habit

Explore more quotes by Rumi

"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

Existence

"My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul."

Grief

"Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!"

Mindfulness

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

Spiritual

"What does not come into man's imagination is called a "gift" because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that."

Spiritual

"Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

Spiritual

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

Emotion

"The flower that does not smileat the branches withers."

Nature

"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."

Health

"The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone."

Nature