I guess if you take away the pain in life it means having no beauty to hope for. – Daniel, @blindedpoet
People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. – Oscar Wilde
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. – Henry Ward Beecher
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. – Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790
The course of true anything never does run smooth. – Samuel Butler
Invite your melancholy outside for a walk. Or read it a poem. Or bake it chocolate chip cookies. – Dr.SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. – August Wilson
Lost dreams may help you find new dreams. – J Charles White, @connect1492
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Russian Proverb
Life is hard to bear. But do not pretend to be so frail! We are all good he-asses and she-asses of burden. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus
Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. – Elizabeth Taylor
