Pain

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
- Anne Sullivan

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- Clive Staples Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- M. Kathleen Casey

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
- Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
- Carol Leifer