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The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Fire, Agents
Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.114, Hachette UK

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Jim Butcher
Inspirational, Pain, Important
"White Night (The Dresden Files, Book 9)". Book by Jim Butcher, April 3, 2007.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Doe, Ends
Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.89, Penguin

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Mean, Sacrifice
Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.11, Penguin

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher
Laughter, Pain, Fighting

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Heart, Cutting

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

Jim Butcher
Hurt, Growing Up, Pain
"White Night". Book by Jim Butcher, 2007.

Being a wizard gives you more power than most, but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Heart, Giving
Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.207, Penguin

We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Naked
Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.207, Penguin

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Two, Important
Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1664, Penguin

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

Jim Butcher
Pain, Loss, Past
Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.313, Penguin

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