Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

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

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

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

I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.

You take a look back at some tough parts of your life, just bad things that have happened: they tend to build your character and make you who you are.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

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.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Every experience makes you a man.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

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.

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

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

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