The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Quotations
Suffering
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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
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"
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"
Suffering is a journey which has an end.
-Matthew Fox
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
-Tennessee Williams
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
-Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations"
