“It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.”
- Thucydides
I’m doing a course at the moment. It’s bloody hard, very demanding. The instructors are first class at what they do, real role models for the skills they’re teaching. The criticism they give is unflinching and brutally honest. The self evaluation forces you to look inwards and try to level that same fair, but all seeing critical eye on your own performance and skills. It’s not criticism from some sports pundit twat that could never even attempt the things he is criticising others for actually doing. No, it’s good criticism, the kind that makes you grow, from people that really know. Why am I saying ‘makes you grow’ ? how do I know I’m growing? Because it’s painful. Painful and hard.
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
- Kahlil Gibran
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Battle takes away the easy supply of daily wants and so proves a rough master that brings most men’s characters to a level with their fortunes.”
- Thucydides
“Body and spirit I surrendered whole to harsh instructors – and received a soul.”
- Rudyard Kipling
“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”
- Proverbs 13:20
“One should be prepared to receive ninety-nine percent of an enemy’s attack and stare death right in the face in order to illumine the Path. “
- Morihei Ueshiba
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
- Lance Armstrong
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
- Kenji Miyazawa
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
- Jim Rohn
“Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us-and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning.”
- Louisa May Alcott
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