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
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
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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.
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts