"too much growth can lead to serious growing pains."

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

"I will control myself, or go inside. I will not flaw perfection with my grief. Handsome, this day: no matter who has died."

"It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime."

"Having dealt with a lot of real firefighters, I know there are a lot of guys who, for lack of a better term, become addicted to the grief because it has kept them connected to these guys that they felt responsible for having lost."

"I used to run and hide from my feelings especially when I felt something that was upsetting, painful, or uncomfortable."

"When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change."

"Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell"

"If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!"

"Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.."

"I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast"

"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures."

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."

"Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it."

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

"If he really thinks there is no distinction between vice and virtue, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons."

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."

"Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression."

"If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him."

"Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."

"I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain."

"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."

"The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."

"I know that pain is the one nobility / upon which Hell itself cannot encroach"