Here is a list of quotes, that I have collected over the years, that focus on coping with pain and problems:

• You have a choice. You can throw in the towel – or you can use it to wipe the sweat off your face before you continue on.

• Color is the pain of light. — Goethe; When light passes through a prism, it’s torn to pieces as colorful shards scatter in every direction. — Wurmbrand

• The more pain we endure, with a good attitude, the more magnificent our character will become.   

• Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. – Spurgeon

• Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about dancing in the rain.

• We could never learn to be patient if there were only joys in this world. — Helen Keller (not word for word)

• If it were not for the darkness we would never see the sunrise. If it were not for the rocks the creek would lose its song.

• The difficult times are the best teachers.

• Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. — Viktor E. Frankl

• Problems are a privilege. They are intended to be stepping stones to greatness, if we allow them to be.

• It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering. — Warren Wiersbe

• The difference between try and triumph is set extra umph you put into it.

• Stop tormenting yourself by living the pain over and over. Good people go through terrible things, but wise people know when and how to let it go. — Bryant Mcgell

• Without rain nothing grows, learn to brace the storms of life.

• Pain is for a purpose. — M. Z. Hurst