sometimes growth hurts, but it is the type of pain that is easier to endure because it is helping us come forward as a better version of ourselves.

There’s no pain without growth and there’s no growth without pain.

Growth is so uncomfortable yet so rewarding

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Most people will grow only with pain, not with pleasure. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the truth. Generally people only go down with pleasure. They don’t go up with pleasure. Please see, the quality of a human being is like this: when life offers more and more pleasures to a man, he doesn’t grow. He goes down. In terms of the real quality of a human being, only when suffering comes, when pain comes, does a man stand up as a human being.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

Growth comes at the point of resistance.

There is no such thing as change without pain, no growth without discomfort. It’s why it is impossible to become someone new without first grieving the loss of who you used to be.

growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

I hope it grows [but] then you probably end up in a difficult situation sometimes. That is part of growth and you have to deal with it well.

Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

. . . all joy grows from the root of pain.