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"
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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
...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"
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo