Sri Aurobindo Quotes

The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

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

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

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.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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

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.

I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

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

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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.

Man's soul is strengthened by suffering.

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

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength