C. S. Lewis Quotes

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.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

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

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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

All my work, my life, everything I do is about survival, not just bare, awful, plodding survival, but survival with grace and faith. While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

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!

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

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.