Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up. Sometimes we feel pain from the past that we need to let go. When we hold on to anger, resentment, and regret from the past, we are holding onto pain. Instead of letting the pain go, we keep feeding it.

In this quote, Dr. Viktor Frankl says, "The job of the psychologist is not so much to bring back a man who once committed suicide as it is to prevent him from doing so again and again. The job of the psychiatrist is not so much to cure a man who has become insane as it is to prevent him from becoming so again."

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