Suffering
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn't help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
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