“The trick is not minding that it hurts.” — Lawrence of Arabia (1962 film)

“The struggles you endure today will be the ‘good old days’ you’ll laugh about tomorrow.” — Aaron Lauritsen

“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?”

“Pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don’t magnify them in your imagination.”

“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.” — Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Je mehr er hinauf in die Höhe und Helle will, um so stärker streben seine Wurzeln erdwärts, abwärts, in’s Dunkle, Tiefe, — in’s Böse.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

其實人跟樹是一樣的，越是嚮往高處的陽光，它的根就越要伸向黑暗的地底。 — 尼采

“The qualities of “patience” and “endurance” are so similar that they are the same word in Greek, hypomonē. As the apostle Paul wrote, “We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.” I think my mother could have been an excellent marathoner.” — Nicholas Thompson, The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

痛是難免的，苦是甘願的。

Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

Suffering = Pain × Resistance; To suffer more = To suffer before it is necessary

“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” — Seneca

Duḥkha (commonly spelled dukkha) is a central Buddhist concept usually translated as “suffering,” “pain,” “unsatisfactoriness,” or “discontentment”

Pain did not show you who you were. It showed you who was actually there when you stopped performing.