Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.L. Lionel Kendrick
Character isn't formed out of smart people. It is formed out of people who have suffered.Jensen Huang
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.Carl Jung
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.Plato
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.Voltaire
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.Winston Churchill
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.Douglas MacArthur
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.Ludwig von Mises
Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.John Cornwell
Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.Sun Yat-sen
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.Angelina Jolie
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.Kay Redfield Jamison
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.Sharon Salzberg
In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.Viktor E. Frankl
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.Thomas Becket
To carry our cross is to have such a commitment and identify with Jesus Christ and what He accomplished that I am willing to suffer the repercussions to that identification.Tony Evans
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.Samuel Johnson
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.Aristotle
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.Friedrich Nietzsche
Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever.Marilyn Monroe
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.Don Miguel Ruiz