Quotations
Suffering
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
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
- J. Krishnamurti
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering. Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction? Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune descends.
- Scriptures
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
- A Spiritual Leader
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
- Alan Watts
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
- Matthew Fox
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi
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