Bellamy Young Quotes

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

As a therapist, I know that when you're vulnerable, the best way to move on is to admit your vulnerability, don't beat yourself up for it, and try to find a way to analyze your vulnerability. Pull up your socks and try to do better for you and your family.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

You don't want to try to protect yourself from the pain of a crisis. You want to learn everything you can from it.

Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

I am more mature today, so I deal better with the mistakes than the many times when I locked myself away and wanted to be alone.

If you read something bad about yourself and it stings you, I've learned that somewhere that's a judgment I'm holding about myself, so I'll try to work through that.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.