Inspirational Quotes

Suffering fuels strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

~ Peggy Sealfon

Life is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

~ Peggy Sealfon

There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

~ Seneca

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

~ Juls Amor

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Life has existential suffering, we become happy by caring.

~ Debasish Mridha

What if...the doctors couldn't find anything wrong? What if I was over-exaggerating the pain, weakness, and weird sensations?

~ Jennifer Starzec

Our task is to take suffering in stride, not as if it is a pleasure (it isn’t), but in the knowledge that God will not let it overwhelm us and that He will use it, by His own supernatural alchemy, to three good ends, at least. 1) Our suffering produces character; 2) Our suffering glorifies God; 3) Suffering fulfills the law of the harvest (John 12:24), Rediscovering Holiness by J.I. Packer, pgs. 232-239.

~ J.i. Packer

When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But now the pain is gone, so things are ‘good’. When we hurt, it is because we recall a time when we did not. When there was no pain. But now we suffer, so things are ‘bad’. The tiger sipped from the cup, peering at the boy over the rim. Stars swirled in its eyes. “Good. Bad. The cup holds both.

~ Brooke Burgess

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.

~ Todd Neva

Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.

~ James L. Papandrea

Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard mercilessly beating a female prisoner. “What can we do for these people?” Corrie whispered. “Show them that love is greater,” Betsie replied. In that moment, Corrie realized her sister’s focus was on the prison guard, not the victim she was watching. Betsie saw the world through a different lens. She considered the actions of greatest moral gravity to be the ones we originate, not the ones we suffer.

~ Terryl L. Givens

Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.

~ Shirley Corder

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

~ John Green

It's hard to know, isn't it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,' Grandma continued. 'I happen to think it's both. There's sin, but through it all, He takes the mess we make and paints a masterpiece. In fact, I'm quite certain that before God can ever bless a woman—and use her to impact many—He uses the hammer, the file, and the furnace to do a holy work.

~ Tricia Goyer

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

~ Hannah Hart

There had been a time when I owned my life and now I felt like I was coming around to myself again. It's like I've finally discovered bones in myself I never knew I had. I discovered that it takes bravery to be one's self. I now know that the only thing I needed to be afraid of was of not finding my true self and having the courage to be me.

~ Benilde Little

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

~ Mark Miller

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

~ Jetta Carleton

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation, refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

~ Criss Jami

I don't mind people talking about me behind my back. It means they know me, and I'm out in front.

~ David Lucero

We're all a beautiful, wonderful work in progress....Embrace the process!

~ Nanette Mathews

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals.

~ Mr.smith

I don't want to grow old thinking ''what if I had done...''. I avoid the ''should have's'' and take ACTION.

~ Rachel Smets

Negativity pierces determination like rust. Stay coated with faith and confidence.

~ Vikrmn

It takes faith to hopelessly pursue hope.

~ Auliq Ice

Always trust yerself, lass. There's not a soul in this world that has a heart like yers. Plenty o' smart people here, aye, but logic ain't always the best way to a decision. Can ye remember that? -Alban Dewberry

~ E.s. Lowell

Yup! I'll live stupid! Because I know what I do, and what we as a species do will one day come together and make a difference. We matter!

~ Charles Lee

One of the unexpected and wonderfully fair things I have learned in my career is that if Hollywood were filled just with perfect-looking people, then soap operas would be the most-watched things in the world. But they're not. Looks are great, but they're not compelling enough. I've noticed that successful actors with long careers are usually talented actors with charismatic screen presences, and all of them exude one thing: confidence.

~ Mindy Kaling

You have to let people see what you wrote. It will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.

~ Tina Fey

You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That’s a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man’s touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don’t understand how you could have self-confidence if you don’t do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

~ Mindy Kaling

GOD is determined on you.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

The treasures in you must never be threatened by the gifts in others.

~ Temitope Ibrahim