Break the Shell”: “Child, it’s time to break the shell Life’s gonna hurt but it’s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from inside yourself You cannot fly until you break the shell.
The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain.
That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.
If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge.
The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.
...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
