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
Quotations
Suffering
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
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 "Meister Eckhart"
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.
-Mother Teresa
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
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"
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
