Painful Lessons Quotes

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

Pain is like a life coach in your body. It’s what made me a life coach because I started paying a lot of attention to what made me hurt and what didn’t. It turned out my body was trying to steer me away from a life that was absolutely wrong for me and into a life that was absolutely wonderful.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.

The fool learns by suffering.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

I mean my mother always wanted us to be individuals. She always instilled that into our brains which was incredibly painful for an adolescent to deal with.

You learn quickly at Madrid. Every lesson here is three elsewhere.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?