Pain and suffering are like weights and pushups to the human spirit—adversity only makes it stronger.
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Adversity only makes us stronger.
Every adversity we overcome makes our spirit and soul grow st...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I don't understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Con...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Pain and suffering makes you realise what is life.
KOWSALAPATHY Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you brave,failure makes you wiser.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heart break makes you wiser.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA She wanted me to remember that pleasure is political--for the capacity to relax and play renews the ...
BELL HOOKS There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. W...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH A word missing from the dictionary:
Suffercating:
When the heart, spirit, mind are in great sadness ...
ZEN GRAND MASTER ZEN The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
KARL MARX The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
KARL MARX Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes ...
MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamenta...
BUDDHA I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL Man is the only animal that strives to be more than he is....it is the indomitable spirit within tha...
STEVEN LANG Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.
LURLENE MCDANIEL What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.
GREG RUSEDSKI Pain makes you stronger; Tears makes you braver; Heartbreak makes you wiser; so thank the past for a...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Drive inner strength by overcoming the adversity with your fighting spirit. It is your fighting spir...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I have seen human beings who have forged "intellectual" armor to shield themselves from adversity. T...
BERNARD WERBER Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it’s worth.
JOHN GREEN Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.
JOHN GREEN Death doesn’t end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.
JAMES W. BODDEN As a poor man without resources, he didn't look - at 19 - like he would attain an earning capacity. ...
JENNIFER GREENBERG Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you brave, mistakes & failure if taken in positive frame of mind...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Only the weak in spirit causes others pain.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes....
ANGELINA JOLIE Without pain,there would be no suffering,without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.To...
ANGELINA JOLIE When the pain and suffering of a fellow human being does not constitute a tragedy in my life, then m...
QUINN STILLETTO Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not en...
ANTONIA S. BYATT Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ...
ANTONIA S. BYATT The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a con...
JOYCE MEYER Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
JESS LAIR The only furniture in the dank space was a flimsy cot. Water dripped steadily in one corner. A hole ...
BRANDON MULL Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity.
WILL ROGERS Adversity quickens the mind, awakens the spirit and strength the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your pain is our pain, your suffering is our suffering, ... Switzerland wants to see cause and respo...
MORITZ LEUENBERGER It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
EMIL ZATOPEK Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
JOHN PAUL II Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why d...
LEV GROSSMAN Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most exc...
POPE FRANCIS Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit.
JAIME CONTRERAS The only weights I lift are my dogs.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both....
SIMONE WEIL Because you are habituated to be in suffering, Bliss looks a disturbance to you!
PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit....
LIAM NEESON Forgive those that hurt you. It will only make you stronger.. Take your Power back from them. They a...
NERISSA IRVING Promises and memories
are the only heaviest weights
that has ever carried by man.
TSEHAYE HAILEMARIAM NOTHING IS STRONGER THAN THE RESILIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. (found in an ad at Goodreads, but simil...
BERN WILLIAMS An eating disorder is a coping mechanism keeping you from more pain, but you have to ask yourself - ...
CINDY GROSS Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are h...
MARC BEKOFF Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss o...
MOTHER TERESA Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them ...
JAMES BUCKHAM The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we o...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep ou...
RADHANATH SWAMI Our people are responding to adversity with steadfast determination, yet still maintaining the spiri...
ANGELE DAVIS Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain
ALICE JAMIESON Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals...
SUZY KASSEM Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those...
HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but...
DAVID BEN-GURION Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's t...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Siddhartha embarked on a mission that human civilization has been on since its inception – How to ...
AJIT KUMAR JHA Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The an...
T.D. JAKES Life is like a run, it hurts, but what hurst makes you stronger and lets you finish
WILL HEFFERNAN Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything g...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Trials, temptations, disappointments all these are helps instead of hindrances, if
one uses them rig...
JAMES BUCKHAM Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a...
TOM BRADY Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.
EMIL DORIAN We are far, far stronger than our pain
KAMAL RAVIKANT The Republic need to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering; so th...
HORACE GREELEY Encouragement and appreciation are to the human spirit, what rain and sun are to a flower
FAISAL KHOSA Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenaci...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
JANET FITCH Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, whi...
DALE CARNEGIE In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, jo...
ISHMAEL BEAH A person feels the pain in judicious proportion to the sensitive nature cherished in own world; othe...
ANUJ SOMANY The purpose of the cyclic nature of pleasure and pain in life is to regain the inner power of the mi...
ANUJ SOMANY Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
CAITLYN LAIDLAW One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, nob...
TERRY PRATCHETT The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first...
ASHLEY MONTAGU The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI We are united not only in our grief, but also in our resolve to build a better world. Our spirit is ...
JAMES EARL JONES Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...
DAN MILLMAN Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...
DAN MILLMAN I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be...
MARILYN MANSON The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN They're a wonderful team, but they're just guys. They're 18 to 22, they lift weights, they work out,...
BUDDY TEEVENS We are aware of the complexity and the pain and the suffering, ... But we are determined to do what ...
GEORGE MITCHELL Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieti...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxietie...
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TONI MORRISON Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal ...
TONI MORRISON Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whethe...
TONI MORRISON Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an...
TONI COLLETTE Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was no...
TONI MORRISON The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place...
TONI MORRISON Her heart kicked and an itchy burning in her throat made her swallow all her saliva away. She didn't...
TONI MORRISON Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] ...
TONI MORRISON Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disabil...
TONI MORRISON No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it wa...
TONI MORRISON It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.
TONI COLLETTE I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
TONI BRAXTON I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
TONI BRAXTON Beauty and the Beast
TONI BRAXTON