Harold Coffin Quotes

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

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

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

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.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

It is through suffering that learning comes.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Only through suffering do we learn

Suffering brings experience.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.