Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Anonymous

• attitude
• pain

Rules for Being Human:

1) You will learn lessons.

2) There are no mistakes - only lessons.

3) A lesson is repeated until it is learned.

4) If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.)

5) You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Anonymous

• education
• pain

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius

• pain
• stress

This is the source.

Let the body avoid discomfort (if it can), and if it feels it, say so. But the soul is what feels fear and pain, and what conceives of them in the first place, and it suffers nothing. Marcus Aurelius

• fear
• pain

This is the source.

Unendurable pain brings its own end with it. Chronic pain is always endurable: the intelligence maintains serenity by cutting itself off from the body, the mind remains undiminished. And the parts that pain affects - let them speak for themselves, if they can. Marcus Aurelius

• mind
• pain

This is the source.

Either pain affects the body (which is the body's problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquility. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them. Marcus Aurelius

• pain

This is the source.

To fear pain is to fear something that's bound to happen, the world being what it is - and that again is blasphemy. While if you pursue pleasure, you can hardly avoid wrongdoing - which is manifestly blasphemous. Marcus Aurelius

• fear
• pain

This is the source.

What is to give light must endure burning. Viktor Frankl

• pain
• sacrifice

Pain is weakness leaving the body. Anonymous

• pain

Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them — i.e., reflecting — if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving. Ray Dalio

• problems
• thought
• pain

This is the source.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. At the same time, nature made the process of getting stronger require us to push our limits. Gaining strength is the adaptation process of the body and the mind to encountering one's limits, which is painful. In other words, both pain and strength typically result from encountering one's barriers. Ray Dalio

• pain
• limitations

This is the source.

When there is pain, the animal instinct is 'fight or flight' (i.e., to either strike back or run away) - reflect instead. When you can calm yourself down, thinking about the dilemma that is causing you pain will bring you to a higher level and enlighten you, leading to progress. Ray Dalio

• pain

This is the source.

You don't get to escape pain. The pain that comes with action is acute, gives you scars, and makes you grow. The pain that comes from inaction is low-grade, makes you soft, and makes you decay. Kyle Eschenroeder

• self improvement
• pain
• initiative