There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
Quotations
Suffering
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
...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"
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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"
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
