Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

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

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.

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

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.

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

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.