You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

The line frames pain not merely as damage or misfortune but as a proving ground: suffering reveals capacities—endurance, resolve, self-knowledge—that can remain invisible in comfort. In Morrison’s idiom, pain is also a threshold experience, stripping away social masks and forcing confrontation with the body and psyche. The statement suggests a paradoxical empowerment: strength is not the absence of pain but the awareness, in the midst of it, that one can survive, adapt, and continue. Read this way, the quote participates in a long tradition (from stoic to existential writing) that treats adversity as a catalyst for authenticity and inner power.