God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
-William Nicholson
"Shadowlands"
Quotations
Suffering
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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 "Guru Tegh Bahadur"
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
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
