To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Theodore Roosevelt
In the depth of winter, I learned that within me lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind. Cheryl Richardson
Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality. Jennifer Grey
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. George Orwell (1984)
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other and you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way. Elizabeth Taylor
If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain, in time you will move through your pain. Bryant McGill
Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real. R. M. Drake
Don’t try to understand everything, because sometimes it isn’t meant to be understood, but to be accepted. Unknown
You don’t know pain until you’re staring at yourself in the mirror with tears streaming down your face and you’re begging yourself to just hold on and be strong. Unknown
The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter. It will go away when you learn to accept life’s challenges with grace and ease. Leon Brown
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires — disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. Bernie S. Siegel
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world falls apart. A humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Marianne Wilson
God gave us pain to remind us we are alive, so we will learn to value the joys and beauty of the world. Tom Corr
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering. Ernest Hemingway
It is not what happens to us in life that defines us. It is what we do with it that defines us. Tom Seaman
