Nuno Espirito Santo Quotes

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

Beauty that arose out of pain.

What hurts us is what heals us.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

Our pain can be our greatest teacher. It leads us to places we'd never go on our own.

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

The struggle I went through has value.