Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Williams

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Beyonce Knowles

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

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Andrew Solomon

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Felix Adler

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.

Lee Strobel

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.

Marianne Williamson

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve.

Susan Cain

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.

Rick Warren

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

Chogyam Trungpa

meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.

Camille Paglia

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Audrey Hepburn

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

C. S. Lewis

Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun.

Charles Francis Richter

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

Benjamin Franklin

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Benjamin Franklin

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

Arthur Guiterman

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

Abraham Lincoln

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

Jeremy Taylor

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

Gordon Lightfoot

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Robert Greene

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray