Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Suffering
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
-Helen Keller
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
-Antonio Porchia
"Voces (Voices)"
We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Gustav Jung
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
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
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
