William P. Young Quotes

My life is so full of sacrifices.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

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.

Change is painful, and people are always reticent to accept a lot of pain.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

It was challenging. It was never easy for me. My life changed suddenly, and I lost my health. I lost the body that I knew.

Anything worth changing is not easy to change.

We'd all like to increase pleasure and minimize pain, but the truth is, suffering, even collective suffering that we're going through, is often the earmark that some real change is happening.

A loss is something tough.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.

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

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.

No Victory Without Suffering

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.