Suffering

If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
- Lesley Hazelton

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- Paulo Coelho

He who suffers much will know much
- Greek proverb

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity
- William Wordsworth

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
- Horace

Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong
- Henry Wadsworth

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4).
- Bible

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
- Ben Okri

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
- Les Brown

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy
- John Calvin

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Reviewed: 01/2006