Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering.
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.
The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Give me blood and I shall give you freedom.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Patience is the plaster of all sores.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
If you remain angry at someone, then who is suffering?
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
A good friend sees the first tear, catches the second and stops the third.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
It is not work that kills, but worry.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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.
Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Physical prowess is for cowards; a little pain builds character.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
God has commanded Time to console the unhappy.
Beauty can pierce one like pain.
If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive.
It's often not what we say that hurts, but what we don't say.
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Pain is your friend; it lets you know that you're still alive.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
