...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"
Quotations
Suffering
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nothing is more seductive for man than his freedom of conscience. But nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The root of all our miseries is not being mentally prepared for a situation. I cannot
understand, why don't you accept that what happens to others, can always
happen to you as well!
-Deep Trivedi
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
