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A little bit of pain is good for you. Everybody needs struggle. Once you overcome an obstacle, you springboard into the future. Life is interesting and short and it's not supposed to be easy, and if it is, you're probably just in denial and you're existing here like a zombie. - Pamela Anderson

Anybody can laugh in joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain … knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by. - Unknown

Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness. - WM. Paul Young

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. - Horace Mann

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. - Kevin Bacon

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is pain that changes our lives. - Steve Martin

It would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. - Aeschylus

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. - Christopher Paolini

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. - Maya Angelou

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it. - Rabindranath Tagor

Never underestimate the pain of a person because the truth is everyone is struggling. It’s just some people hide it better than others. - Will Smith

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. - J.K. Rowling

Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused. - Dean Koontz

Often it’s your deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. - Karen Salmenshon

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. - Aeschylus

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. - Walter Bagehot

One will never understand what you’re going through unless he has lived it nor will he know your pain unless he has felt it. - Jacqueline Nambiar

Pain. The Buddhist Monks believe it exists only to be embraced, that we must fold it into our lives alongside pleasure and remember that both are fleeting. - Jim Profit

Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain any more. It's something else. - Samuel R. Delany

Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance. - Jean Liedloff

Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. - Sarah Jane Smith

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. - Dean Koontz

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible. - Eckhart Tolle

Pain changes people, it makes them trust less, overthink more, and shut people out. - Unknown

Pain for the old was no longer a surprise. - Cormac McCarthy

Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly ... and if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place. - WM. Paul Young

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others gives rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. - Dean koontz

Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn. - Dan Brown

Pain is always an opportunity for real expansion and growth. - Sherri Bishop

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - Dalai Lama 

Pain is only what you allow it to be. - Cassandra Clare

Pain is part of anyone's journey... you can't escape it. - Unknown

Pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood, it disappears into the night. - Unknown

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

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt. - J. M. Coetzee

Pain may create misery, pain may give you sorrow. It may trouble you today, but will be gone tomorrow. Pain has its ways; it surely comes but never stays. - RVM

Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. - George Eliot

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present. - Jacqueline Carey

Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome. - Rosemary Altea

Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way below the belt and doesn't let up. Pain, you just have to fight through, because the truth is you can't outrun it and life always makes more. - Dr. Meredith Grey

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by. - Geneen Roth

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain clings cruelly to us. - John Keats

Replacing one pain with another doesn't work. You'll just be left with both, soon enough. - Christine Kurkierewicz

Some of the most painful scars: the ones that hurt the most are the scars that can’t be seen. - Unknown

Some people think that to be strong is to never feel pain. In reality the strongest people are the ones who feel it, understand it and accept it. - Unknown

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends. - Aeschylus

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. - Thomas Jefferson

The lessons we learn from pain are the ones that make us the strongest. - Lionel Luthor

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. - Roger Bannister

The most annoying pain is perceived when a man is living without a purpose. - Amit Kalantri

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. - Publilius Syrus

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

The pains of life serve, by contrast, to multiply enjoyment; they constitute the foil which sets off and heightens the flashing brightness of the gem. - Eliza Cook

The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it. They say that time heals all wounds, but we never live long enough to test that theory. - Jose Saramago

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain. - China Mieville

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. - Fernando Pessoa

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. - R. D. Laing

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. - Carl Jung

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. - Stephen King

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you. - Anthony Hopkins

There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne. - Jack London

To hurt is as human as to breathe. - J. K. Rowling

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. - Paulo Coelho

We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice. - Jacob Held

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

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

We wince under little pains, but nature in us, through the excitement attendant upon them, braces us to endure with fortitude greater agonies. - Christian Nestell Bovee

When times are difficult, remind yourself that no pain comes to you without a purpose. - Unknown

When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change. - George Eliot

Wherefore groan and lament over pain? Be, rather, thankful for this one sign of life; for the dead suffer no pain, and lay figures are never chilled by frost. - Ivan Panin

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. - Angelina Jolie

Without the possibility of pain, there can be no joy, no real love. - Angela Montenegro

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, or who had ever been alive.