#suffering

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#alive #been #book #dealing #four

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#better #better things #excites #people #revolt

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#causes #does #flesh #form #most

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#deserve #honor #i #i am #i do

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#real #suffering #terrorists #torture

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#accept #apart #ceases #christ #got

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. ↗

— Christiaan Barnard

#ennobling #recovery #suffering

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. ↗

— John Berger

#psychology #suffering #experience