1. Sit with the pain until it passes, and you will be calmer for the next one.
2. Without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.
3. Let go of the past.
4. Adversity is the first path to truth.
5. Great things never came from comfort zones
6. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it
7. It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
8. True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends
9. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
10. Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
11. Turn your wounds into wisdom.
12. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
13. 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.
14. You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
15. Every pain is a gift. Every pain is an opportunity.
16. The root of all suffering is attachment.
17. What hurts us is what heals us.
18. I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
19. Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.
20. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
21. People go through so much pain trying to avoid pain.
22. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
23. Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.
24. Most of the gains in life come from suffering in the short term, so you can get paid in the long term.
25. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.
26. It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
27. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
28. Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out – it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.
29. The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
30. The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
31. I’ve learned more from pain than I could’ve ever learned from pleasure.
32. Remember anything you want that’s valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
33. Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation
34. Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
35. You must go through that short-term pain to reach long-term gains. A meaningful life is about growth, not comfort
36. We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
37. The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure but to avoid pain.
38. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
39. You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
40. There is no education like adversity.
41. Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain
42. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
43. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
44. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
45. 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.
46. Laugher is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
47. The only thing that’s the end of the world is the end of the world.
48. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
49. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
50. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
51. Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
52. 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.
53. One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.
54. Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
55. There are no gains without pains.
56. Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.
57. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
58. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
59. My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
60. One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
