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

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 certain, suffering is optional.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

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.

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.

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

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.

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

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.