David Viscott Quotes

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

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.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.

God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times.

I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.