Whatever pain you can’t get rid of, make it your creative offering.

When we accept our own pain we can begin to see past it to the other person's woundedness. We can begin to consider that if we were in their shoes, if we stood inside their story, we might have done to others what they did to us.

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

This is why we’re here. To fight through the pain and, when possible, to relieve the pain of others. So simple. So hard to see.

Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.

But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.

What was love if it wasn't nursing someone else's pain as if it were your own?

The process we embarked on through the TRC was, as all real growth proves to be, astoundingly painful and profoundly beautiful.

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Transformation begins in you, wherever you are, whatever has happened, however you are suffering. Transformation is always possible. We do not heal in isolation. When we reach out and connect with one another — when we tell the story, name the hurt, grant forgiveness, and renew or release the relationship — our suffering begins to transform.

It's pain that changes our lives.