There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
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.
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.
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
"Shadowlands"
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-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.