It is only by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you were looking for. ~ Joseph Campbell

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and he other to get the news to you. ~Mark Twain

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment. ~ Susan Taylor, Charlotte Observer, 4/15/05

There are no gains without pains. ~ Adlai Stevenson

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength. ~ Drew Barrymore

It is not what we say that hurts but how we say it. ~ John Gray

You learned the concept "pain" when you learned language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Life is pain. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something. ~ William Goldman, Philosophical Investigations

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process. ~ Terry Bradshaw

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. ~ Gabrielle Roth, Keys to the Open Gate

Wounds that can’t be seen are more painful than those that can be seen and cured by a doctor. ~ Nelson Mandela

Turn your scars into stars... Turn your hurt into a halo. ~ Robert H. Schuller

If I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. ~ Cesare Pavese

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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