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Pain is temporary; quitting is forever. - Lance Armstrong

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. - Dutch Proverb

Humor is a painful thing told playfully. - Charles W Jarvis

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Haruki Murakami

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. - Susan Longacre

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. - Oscar Wilde

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. - Bob Marley

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

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. - Thomas Jefferson

Suicide doesn't end the pain. It just passes it on to someone else. - James Kirkup

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. - Richard Carlson

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you known it is healed. - Lyanla Vanzant

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - Pearl S. Buck

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless... but all are priceless. - Unknown

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues. - Nina Easton

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. - Tagore

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

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change. - Henry Cloud

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

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. - Kahlil Gibran

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. - Aldous Huxley

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering. - Francois de Fenelon

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. - Henri Nouwen