Love opens us.Pain deepens us.Courage strengthens us.Joy enlightens us.Beauty renews us. Votes: 2
Joyce WycoffPain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy. Votes: 2
Tim HanselEveryone wants to protect their heart, but without pain, one can never have joy. Votes: 1
Jaycee FordThe body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain. Votes: 1
Myrtle ReedInner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God. Votes: 1
Jim GeorgeMusic exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain. Votes: 0
John ArmstrongOur greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others. Votes: 0
Stephen CoveyLife will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. Votes: 0
Milton H. EricksonWe have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges. Votes: 0
Dana ReevePain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. Votes: 0
Spider RobinsonSacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiPain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleThe heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerPain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillYou really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? Votes: 0
Laini TaylorThere is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. Votes: 0
Cate TiernanPain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. Votes: 0
Joshua LeonardThe joy of God is so exquisite that any sacrifice is worth the effort and seeming pain. Votes: 0
David HawkinsLove's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreLove sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage. Votes: 0
Brother LawrenceOnly where there is sentient life can there be feelings of pleasure and pain, sorrow or joy. Votes: 0
Max HeindelWe have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them. Votes: 0
Chuck PalahniukYou purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. Votes: 0
Alexander PopeIt's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. Votes: 0
Garth BrooksLife is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaIt's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain. Votes: 0
John UpdikeHumor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond. Votes: 0
Stephen G. PostPain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. Votes: 0
John SterlingThere is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned. Votes: 0
Stephen CraneI want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger. Votes: 0
Annabella SciorraDo not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. Votes: 0
Goran PerssonIf thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. Votes: 0
George HerbertOpening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy. Votes: 0
John Mark GreenAfter the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here. Votes: 0
Walt DisneyLove should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain. Votes: 0
Nicholas SparksI wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. Votes: 0
David LevithanThe tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. Votes: 0
Alan LightmanWhen it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Votes: 0
Ingrid NewkirkI am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them. Votes: 0
Kimberly Elisesometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it Votes: 0
Meena KhanA promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books."¦But what was love but pain? Votes: 0
Melissa de la Cruz