She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up into the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke silently...

In suffering we find our truest selves.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

Your life will always be the perfect classroom journey for you and every experience that shows up in your journey is here to serve you. There is meaning and purpose behind everything that happens. There...

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else’s.

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It’s facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go...

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful andpowerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is therevelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then...

Let me tell you, I have never suffered nor will ever suffer … only when I take upon myself the suffering of others do I appear to the suffering.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice

Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.”Wow. Where have you two been all my life?”Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.”Walking hand in...

Sometimes suffering is just suffering. It will not make you strong.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

All to often, suffering exists in a realm beyond vocabulary so we navigate that realm awkwardly, fumbling for the right words, hoping we can somehow approximate an understanding of matters that should never have to...

Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving throughout my body, the other cells letting it pass by, yielding to its...

Although you and I have crossed each other, we two are destined by the heavens to be together. There will come a day when the two of us will join together to do great things....

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Are you so dead inside you don’t feel the daily anguish, terror and deathly suffering of millions? What happened to you? You’ve changed.

If you don’t accept and respect your suffering, it isn’t going anywhere.

… everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there’re no jobs.

Should I, too, prefer the title of ‘non-Jewish Jew’? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde...

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

Did you,” so he asked him at one time, “did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?”Vasudeva’s face was filled with a bright smile.”Yes, Siddhartha,” he spoke. “It is...

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

subvert” that brokenness.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Maybe he’s suffering from a case of jet lag. Is he suggesting that we be reduced to truant officers? It seems to me to be a plan obsessed with power and control.

A Brief for the DefenseSorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise...

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the...

Break what must be broken, once for all, that’s all, and take the suffering on oneself.

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you...

O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

You’ve been told that you’re broken, that you’re damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don’t buy it. The truth, instead, is that you are the only folks with the skills, determination, and values...

It is a weakness to suffer when you don’t have to.

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

He loves me so he hurts meTo try and make me good.It doesn’t work. I’m just too badAnd don’t do what I should.My memory has so many different sections and, like all survivors, there are...

Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless...

…you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave…

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don’t want any more.

I’ll admit it I’m on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search...

Sigmund Freud once asserted, “Let one attempt to expose a number of the most diverse people uniformly to hunger. With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in...

I think both ways are ways to make the world a better place and to reduce the suffering.