| "I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable." »Joseph Addison |
| "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." »Thich Nhat Hanh |
| "One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering." »Jane Austen |
| "We compound our suffering by victimizing each other." »Athol |
| "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." »Sigmund Freud |
| "Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Pain is inevitable. suffering is optional." »M. Kathleen Casey |
| "You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." »John Ciardi |
| "Pain is inevitable suffering is optional." »Unknown |
| "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
| "Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering." »Tom Stoppard |
| "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." »Woody Allen |
| "For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." »Robert Green Ingersoll |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." »Rita Mae Brown |
| "You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering." »Henri Frdric Amiel |
| "To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key." »Charles Fletcher Lummis |
| "The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt |
| "All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals." »Peter Singer |
| "People don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy" »Louise Bogan |
| "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." »Helen Keller |
| "'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt." »Thomas Merton |
| "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies" »Erich Fromm |
| "The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance." »Akhenaton |
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