You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
Bob Marley
The best way to neutralize our natural impatience is to cultivate a kind of pleasure in pain — like an athlete, you come to enjoy rigorous practice, pushing past your limits, and resisting the easy way out.
Robert Greene
Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well.
Robert Greene
The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it.
Aella
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius
Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.
Darrin Patrick
If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
John C. Maxwell
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
Lao Tzu
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
Ernest Hemingway
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires — disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Bernie S. Siegel
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain, in time you will move through your pain.
Bryant McGill
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.
Cheryl Richardson
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
Henry Ward Beecher
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
Robert Greene
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
Roy T. Bennett
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
Publilius Syrus
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
Anonymous
Where the wound has been given, there must the cure be found, if anywhere.
Jane Austen
There are two types of pain in this world: pain that hurts you, and pain that changes you.
Anonymous
The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
Eckhart Tolle
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
Adam Braun
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.
Michael J. Fox
If experience is the mother of wisdom, pain is the father.
Thibaut
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Marquis de Sade
Sooner or later, you will need to make friends with disappointment.
Dr. SunWolf
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Dr. Seuss
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C.S. Lewis
Great things never came from comfort zones.
Neil Strauss
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.
Elizabeth Taylor
Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
Rumi
After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.
Walt Disney
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
James Baldwin
It is when we hurt that we learn.
Steve Maraboli
Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
Fight Club
Two barrels of tears will not heal a bruise.
Chinese proverb
Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.
Naval Ravikant
Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
Russian proverb
There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength’. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.
Dalai Lama