Without pain, how could we know joy?

' This is an old argument in

the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of
sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that
the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of
chocolate.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in

the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of
sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that
the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of
chocolate.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering
itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of
its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's
encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering
itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of
its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's
encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most

massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most

massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of

pain.
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of

pain.
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can
endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain,
one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can
learn to control oneself.
James Frey, My Friend Leonard

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can
endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain,
one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can
learn to control oneself.
James Frey, My Friend Leonard

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole
life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies
knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the
wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands, Love Bites

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole
life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies
knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the
wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands, Love Bites

There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares.
Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of
Annabelle Fancher

There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares.
Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of
Annabelle Fancher

We do not suffer by accident.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

We do not suffer by accident.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's
no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it
before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky

But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's
no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it
before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn
humility.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The
Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn
humility.
Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The
Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the
noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept
that they exist.
Noah Cicero, The Condemned

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the
noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept
that they exist.
Noah Cicero, The Condemned