The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
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.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
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.
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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