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• All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

  Bodhidharma

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Conditions, Depend

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Character, Difficulties

• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time . . . president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

  David Halberstam

  Topics in Religion, Suffering

  Tags in Difficulties

• Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

  James Russell Lowell

  Topics in Failure, Suffering

  Tags in Difficulties

• Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Topics in Failure, Life, Success, Suffering

  Tags in Now, Difficulties

• The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Suffering, Wisdom

  Tags in Great, Read, Thing, Mankind, Medicine, Crime

• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know … that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

  Ernest Becker

  Topics in Life, Suffering

  Tags in Meaning

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Change/Growth, Doubt/Uncertainty, Persistence, Character, Purpose, Meaning

• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

  Viktor Emil Frankl

  Topics in Ideals, Life, Suffering

  Tags in Ethics, Values, Meaning

• We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Fascism, Ran, Waste, Cost

• When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

  Byron Kathleen Mitchell

  Topics in Expectations, Fear, Influence, Suffering

  Tags in Relationships, Control

• Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

  Albert Bandura

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Solutions, Options, Consequences

• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Joy, Suffering

  Tags in Completion, Order

• Most people have come to prefer certain of life’s experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Topics in Risk, Suffering

  Tags in Seeking, Greatness, People, Comfort

• We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

  Marcel Proust

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Communication

• You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

  Thich Nhat Hanh

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Listening

• Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Fear, Suffering

  Tags in Illusions, Imagination

• It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

  Judy Collins

  Topics in Life, Suffering

• It isn’t the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it’s how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.

  Pema Chodron

  Topics in Attitude, Suffering

• No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Appearance, Poor, Wealth