Tough shit, buddy. Your tough shit...

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

When he was drifting, thinking only about the next meal and night's sleep, when everything was packed tight in his chest, he had no sense of failure, of things not working out. Anything that worked at all worked out.

sometimes God will allow you to experience larger problems in life because He wants to unveil a larger portion of Himself to you. People who want to give up on God simply because life's scenarios don't make sense could very well be walking away from a new manifestation of God and His name in their lives.

Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Pain is nothing, just a warning signal from the body to the brain. Pain is no more the real thing than an X-ray photograph is the real thing. Biut of course he is wrong.