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  • A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how it goes. You have a painful experience with someone, then run it over and over in your mind. You visualize what you said, what he did, how you both felt. As awful as it is, you feel compelled to repeat the film day and night. It is as if you were locked inside a theatre playing a horrible movie.

  • Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

  • I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.

    Karma   Believe   Heart  
  • Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives.

  • I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.

    Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 15, 2004.
  • Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

    Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.72, Pan Macmillan
  • We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

  • Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

    Life   Pain   Growth  
    Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.107, Image
  • You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

  • You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences.

    Maurice Sendak's acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for "Where the Wild Things Are" (1964), as quoted in "Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books: 1956-65" edited by Lee Kingman, 1965.
  • 1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

    Source: www.texasmonthly.com
  • I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • But without painful experiences, we dont grow

  • Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

    Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.342, Discovery House
  • Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

    "How to Parent an Introverted Child: An Interview With Susan Cain". Interview with Sil Reynolds, www.eomega.org. June 9, 2013.
  • By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

    "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
  • Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

    Pain   Maturity   Enough  
  • I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

    Pain   Past   Men  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

  • God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

    "The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.
  • There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

  • Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

  • Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

    Pain   Past   Order  
  • The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

    Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins
  • I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

    Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress
  • There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  • If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

    "8 Celebrities On Dealing With Their ‘Awkward Phase’" By Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2015.
  • We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

    "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, andrewsolomon.com. August 01, 2014.
  • As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.

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