Turning Pain into Strength Quotes

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.

You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.

Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.