“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace
Source: A Fatal Grace
“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”
Louise Penny book A Fatal Grace
Source: A Fatal Grace
“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
Response to AIDS activist Bob Rafsky at the Laura Belle nightclub in Manhattan (March 27, 1992)
1990s
Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come into contact with a new idea.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
John Nuveen, as quoted in The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham (2005) by Marshall Shelley, p. 303
Misattributed
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83
Sophrony (Sakharov) (1896–1993) Russian monk, theologian and writer
In conversation with Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, 20 September 1992
Others
Source: [PEMPTOUSIA: A Conversation with Elder Sophrony, 12 July 2015, https://pemptousia.com/2015/07/a-conversation-with-the-elder-sophrony/, 11 July 2021]
“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain”
Jennifer Aniston (1969) television and film actress from the United States
Oprah Magazine (2004)