Fran Drescher Quotes

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

The reward of suffering is experience

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.