Meister Eckhart Quotes

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

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

The scars will take me far, they always do.

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

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

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.\

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

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.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.