I’m a huge fan of quotes.
Maybe it’s the former English teacher in me – but I love finding a powerful, memorable line I can remember, share, and refer back to whenever I need it.
I even own a few quotationaries (did you even know that was a thing?) – they’re like dictionaries, but they only have quotes!
When it comes to living with chronic pain – we need all the encouragement we can get, am I right?
So, here are some inspirational quotes I hope will encourage you today – and many days to come.
Encouraging Quotes for People With Chronic Pain:
- “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” – Buddhist proverb
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”- Kahlil Gibran
- “3 Routes to Healing: 1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you. 3. You must not allow it overstay.” – Ijeoma Umebinyuo
- “Everything is going to be alright. Maybe not today, but eventually.”—Unknown
- “If you stumble, make it part of the dance.” – Unknown
- “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other and you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”- Elizabeth Taylor
- “She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.” – Ariana Dancu
- “I don’t want my pain and struggle to make me a victim. I want my battle to make me someone else’s hero.” – Unknown
- “The most interesting, beautiful people you’ll ever meet have often had lives you wouldn’t believe.” – Erica @Autoimmune Rebel
- “Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.” – Bessel A. van der Kolk
- “No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it. Have an unrelenting belief that things will work out, that the long road has a purpose, that the things you desire may not happen today, but they will happen. Continue to persist and persevere.” – Brad Gast
- “You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.” – Josh Shipp
- “Resting is not laziness, it’s medicine!” – Glenn Schweitzer
- “When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once we choose hope, everything is possible.” – Christopher Reeve
- “If opening your eyes, or getting out of bed, or holding a spoon, or combing your hair is the daunting Mount Everest you climb today, that is okay.” – Carmen Ambrosia
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside of you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
- “Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace. This is your crucifixion. Let it become your resurrection and ascension.”- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
- “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and that will burn out the pain.” – Joseph Campbell
- “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”—Bob Marley
- “We are stronger in the places we have been broken.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I often say now I don’t have any choice whether I have Parkinson’s, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.” – Michael J. Fox
- “You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye
- “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott
- “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
- “Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something that is broken. Maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better.” – Unknown
- “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” – Vince Lombardi
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
- “The strongest people I’ve met have not been given an easier life. They’ve learned to create strength and happiness from dark places.” – Kristen Butler
- “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” – Iain S. Thomas
- “If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.” –Bryant McGill
- “The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.” – Hippocrates
- “The only way out is through.” – Robert Frost
- “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” – A. A. Milne
- “The truth is we’re all a little bit broken. We must learn to love the broken pieces of ourselves – be gentle and empathetic with ourselves, and others.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it.” – Hannah Brencher
- “We are stronger in the places we have been broken.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Be the author of your own life story.” – Unknown
- “If you stumble, make it part of the dance.” – Unknown
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Do you have a favorite quote on living with chronic pain, an invisible illness, or just having to push through a hard time?
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To our health,
E
