Rob Sheffield Quotes

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

The reward of suffering is experience.

If you're never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you'll never get better.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

I've obviously learned a lot, a lot of mental toughness, learned how to deal with some adversity. Hopefully I'm better for it.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.