Mark Getty Quotes

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Change is never easy.

It's not going to be easy to change things.

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

Anything worth changing is not easy to change.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

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

Grace changes us and change is painful".

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

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.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

An existence transfigured by failure.