Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.
Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.
We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.
Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.
Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life.
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.
I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.
A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different.
Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.
When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace; and when you are in love with ‘what is,’ you experience bliss.
If "Manners maketh man," as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself, no matter what they say." ( )
And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
Some people are murderers of their own gifts. They wait and see their dreams suffer from deficiency of actions. The end result is that the world is robbed as they baggage their dead dreams for the cemetery!
