Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. ― Criss Jami

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I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

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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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People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it ― Howard Newton

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Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

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Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul. ― John Green

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Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains... ― Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

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I went through a lot of battles in high school. ― LeBron James

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I can handle pain. - Adam Sandler

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