Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

—Unknown

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

—Unknown

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

—Unknown

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

—Unknown

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

—Unknown

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

—Victor Hugo

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

—Unknown

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

—Thucydides

I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

—Oscar Wilde

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

—Louise Bogan