“Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.” IfsMindStatesFactsHappensPainCourageWonderfulBrokenBraveMiseryFinancialIllnessThings HappenReactionsInevitableControlledState Of MindWoeBe BraveWonderful ThingsAlteredOptionalPhysical PainBroken Relationship Author:Barbara
“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.” GivingLightPainCausesDangerWeaknessOvercomingDifficultyBraveDevotionEnduranceFacultyWearinessEarnestnessOvercoming Pain Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.” PainWishWiseLaysBraveGravesCoffins Book:Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches Source: Orpheus in Mayfair: And Other Stories and Sketches
“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]” ThinkingMenPainEvilPleasureHighestBraveryBraveBe BraveBrave Man Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.” NeedsGivingEndsEnoughPainLastsWorryHonestFellowsBraveBoundsBeing HonestBe BraveDiscretionRefrainThose We Love Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell
“For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!” FirstsSoulEndsLightPainTurnsBlackVoiceMinutesWorstElementsBraveRageMy SoulTheeBreastsRave Book:The Works of Robert Browning Source: The Works of Robert Browning