Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

No garden is without its weeds.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.