Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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 "Tirukkural 103:1029-1030"
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
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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.
-Meister Eckhart "Meister Eckhart"
