Why Can't I Get Over This Thing??

It’s one of the hardest things to do.

We have an anxiety attack. A fear has hit us. Something that just torments us. This “thing” has us at its mercy. We’d like to forget it. But that’s impossible.  We cannot turn off terror!!

We are told that this “thing” will pass, that it will die a natural death if we just allow it. If only we can believe that.

But that takes time. Unfortunately, patience is not one of our virtues.

Our challenges are more than climbing small mountains; it’s more like climbing Mount Everest.

Bearing pain and terror are part of the healing process. We must, at times, go through a living hell to find peace of mind.

We are told that the laws of nature are such that we have to feel worse before we start feeling better.

We would be wise to heed the words of Benjamin Franklin and learn from pain: “that which hurts, also instructs.”

 

Here are some more quotes about bearing pain and suffering:

 

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

– Mary Tyler Moore

 

 

There’s no education like adversity.

– Benjamin Disraeli

 

 

Talents are best nurtured in solitude but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

 – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 

 

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.

– author unknown

 

 

 

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials

– Chinese proverb

 

There is no success without hardships

– Sophocles

 

There is probably not a single man or woman, who mostly from self interest, it is true but it might also have been from a superior motive, has not overcome powerful obstacles and accomplished things extremely difficult to undertake.

– Ernest Dimnet

 

 

If you will call your “troubles” “experiences” and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

– J.R. Miller

 

 

The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it.

- Moliere

 

 

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

– William Penn

 

 

The finest steel has to go though the hottest fire.

– Richard M. Nixon