Richard Steele Quotes

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don't feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, 'We don't have to feel pain.' No! Let's feel it, let's make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

We're humans, and we're moved by emotions.

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.