Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

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.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

What hurts us is what heals us.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.