Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one’s words much.

Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long ’till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother’s curse?

Humility adds lessons to our pain and suffering, turning the seemingly senseless into meaning.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that’s the problem with being alive. You don’t usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the...

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily...

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in theworld. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

o endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

When we refuse to work with our disappointment, we break the Precepts: rather than experience the disappointment, we resort to anger, greed, gossip, criticism. Yet it’s the moment of being that disappointment which is fruitful;...

We are very, very close to the suffering of the families. Whatever the U.S. decides to do we are ready to co-operate with them in the fight against terrorists.

Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and...

Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn’t mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

We do not suffer by accident.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? – A.Y.’I’m going to...

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and...

Love hurts because we think that’s what love is.

Maybe if people can’t have an end to their suffering, the next thing they seek for is to know why they suffer. Suffering is a part of life in this world, part of a cycle….Stories...

Garfield’s assassination attempt made “the whole nation care”.

Regardless of the subject of my films … I am looking for a way of evoking in audiences feelings similar to my own: the physically painful impotence and sorrow that assail me when I see...

Hope is a fruit of proven character.

Pod kvazi-mitskim totalitetom tehničke racionalnosti prijeti nam inteligencija bez patosa, inteligencija kojoj nije potreban nikakav jezik koji ima svoj vlastiti smisao jer ionako sve funkcionira bez bilo kakvog proturječja; ta inteligencija ne zna za spomen...

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is...

My life consists of two things,Pain and hardship that no one but me can describe,Love and joy that can only be mesured in who I am

Ethically, she couldn’t cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God’s sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another’s burdens, for there is no man...

When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of...

Relief is a great feeling.It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the negative.And yet, think about...

Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim to be vegetarians, ‘nothing’ is the far more likely outcome. I ask these...

After all these years of suffering, why spin it off?

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

onze aarde hangt niet voor niets scheef. Het is een ironische onderstreping van al het zijn op haar bodem. –it’s for a reason our earth is slanting. It’s an ironical emphasis of all being on...

Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did… You stay in, we’ll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we’ll drive away your depression in a flash....

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)