Monday, January 1, 2018

Suffering

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

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. - John Green

The reward of suffering is experience. - Aeschylus

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. - Thich Nhat Hanh

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. - Seneca

There is nothing like suffering to enlighten the giddy brain, widen the narrow mind, improve the trivial heart. - Charles Reade

We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for. - Thich Nhat Hanh

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. - William Somerset Maugham

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. - Jim Rohn

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation. - Thich Nhat Hanh

When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. - Bertolt Brecht

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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