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
Quotations
Suffering
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
It's easy to look at people and make quick judgements about them, their present and their pasts, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceburg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
-Sherrilyn Kenyon
"Acheron"
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
