Rita Mae Brown Quotes

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

I can handle pain.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I have a high tolerance for pain.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

Pleasure is hard to come by, but pain is everywhere these days, I must learn to subsist on it.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

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

I can take more pain than anyone.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

A little pain is no problem.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.