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
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"
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
