Tongue In Cheek or Lockjaw?

Pain should not be wasted. - Gerda W Klein

Vaccination: An ouch of prevention - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Humor is a painful thing told playfully. - Charles W Jarvis

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer. - Joan Rivers

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields

Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain. - Unknown

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men. - Virgil

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. - Chang Ch'ao

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception. - Alfred de Musset

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. - Bette Davis

Too much homework can cause stress, depression and even lower grades. - Unknown

Acorn: 1. An oak in a nutshell; 2. Something painful on Dad's toe. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. - Marilu Henner

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. - Dr. Seuss

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. - Kelly Clarkson

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. - William Penn

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

Most stress is caused by people who overestimate the importance of their problems. - Michael LeBoeuf

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee. - Phyllis Diller

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill. - Leonard Woolf

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. - Isabel Allende

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. - Mary Ann Mobley

Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. - Mandy Hale

Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success. - Bo Bennett

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. - Shaquille O'Neal

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius

God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. - Josh McDowell

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. - Celeste Holm

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. - C S Lewis

The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it. - James Newman

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. - Adrienne Rich

So often the difference from where we are, and where God wants us to be, is the pain we aren't wiling to endure to get there. - Craig Groeschel

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron

Do something everyday that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain

The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me. - Ashley Wallis

There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! - Joseph Addison

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues. - Nina Easton

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD
Painful moments, TRUST GOD
Every moment, THANKS GOD - Rick Warren

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. - Helen Keller

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. - Marcus Aurelius

Language has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. - George Burns

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended. - C S Lewis

Some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart. - Sue M Kidd

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better. - Jane Fonda

Reality: 1. The dream of a mad philosopher; 2. The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it; 3. The place where the pizza delivery man comes from; 4. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence to, not in an exemption from, suffering. - Francois de Fenelon

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. - Henri Nouwen