Quotes About Suffering

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

If sequestered pain made a sound, the atmosphere would be humming all the time.

Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.