The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts