Toda vida, le dijo esa noche Epifanio a Lalo Cura, por más feliz que sea, acaba siempre en dolor y sufrimiento. Depende, dijo Lalo Cura. ,Depende de qué, buey? De muchas cosas, dijo Lalo Cura....

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry.

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing...

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the...

As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things, and those who give precedence to suffering will be left behind. They fetter...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

What could ever tempt me to share my pain? Why willingly increase it by coming close to another human being, inevitable causing severe damage with the sharp edges of my broken heart?

Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don’t forgive, you are the one who suffers.

The indifference, callousness, and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering towards animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human...

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

The answer to the problem of suffering is not away from the problem but in it. The inevitability of pain will not be met by deadening sensitivity but by increasing it, by exploring and feeling...

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

You don’t change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe by throwing yourself into it. Making a leap, getting involved, then waiting, taking...

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people’s lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

To experience what isn’t, love what is.

Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.

So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable intelligence, men take this farce as something serious, and that is their tragedy....

Bad is so bad, that we cannot but think good an accident; good is so good, that we feel certain that evil could be explained.

prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than...

People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It’s always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless...

pain is like the cold. do not give it your attention. but unlike the cold do not deny being in pain

After suffering something like that, it was sort of difficult to stand over a ball and hit it.

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble–times when I have seen people tempted to deny God–when he says, “The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but...

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.

One great help here – and I make no claim that it is the only help or even a necessary condition for forgiveness – is sincere repentance on the part of the wrongdoer. When I...

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my...

The movement of descent and discovery begins at the moment you consciously become dissatisfied with life. Contrary to most professional opinion, this gnawing dissatisfaction with life is not a sign of “mental illness,” nor an...

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

wound-able” as a choice to the alternative of living miserably inside walls and masks, hiding from pain and Joy.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

The role of a clown and a physician are the same – it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn’t understand my own feelings. And because I can’t understand them, I blame her for provoking in me feelings that...

The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way un which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity -even under the most difficult circumstances- to...

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Verlasse die Sicherheit Deines vertrauten Elends.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called...

… the four noble truths: that there is suffering, that it has an origin, that there is a cessation of suffering, and that there is a path to that cessation.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved by his own sufferings. To know the Cross is to...

Who taught you all this, doctor?”The reply came promptly:”Suffering.

How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn’t rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)

All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one’s condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a...

Your suffering needs to be respected. Don’t try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you....

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn’t heartless. She was only aware of things...

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable–indescribable–my misery amazing.

God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the...