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
Quotations
Suffering
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
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
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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
