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Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.”
Source: Your Voice in My Head

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories
“Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 44 (p. 449)
Source: Hyperion
Context: “Humanity has evolved—as far as it has evolved,” continued the old priest, “with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.”
“Empathy,” Aenea said softly.
“Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.”
Source: Daughter of the Blood

“To lose an arm or a leg would be painful, but to lose the central truth of your life felt—fatal.”
Source: Clockwork Princess

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”
Source: The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
Variant: In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor