I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Quotations
Suffering
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
-Paulo Coelho
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
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
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
