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
Quotations
Suffering
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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.
-J. Krishnamurti "J. Krishnamurti"
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
