The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. ― J.K. Rowling

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If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

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Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.

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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'

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The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day. ― Dr. Seuss,

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A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day. _ Demetri Martin

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain! — Dolly Parton

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Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. ― David Levithan

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