All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Quotations
Suffering
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
-A Spiritual Leader "Guru Tegh Bahadur"
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
-Helen Keller
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
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"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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"
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
