There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
-Ramana Maharshi "Ramana Maharshi"
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and suffering only exist in the mind.
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
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
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.
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
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