Quotations
Suffering

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

The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
- Carl Gustav Jung

There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
- Ramana Maharshi

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

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

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
- Viktor Frankl

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

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
- Paulo Coelho

The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
- Thomas Guthrie

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
- Colette

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