#suffer

The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony in her eyes, the shadows that flickered in the background. If I could, I'd take her pain and make it my own. I'd swallow it like a bitter pill and live with the consequences. ↗

— T.J. Forrester

#relationship #suffering #love

Love is the reason why, even in suffering, we smile. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#smile #suffering #love

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

Love is something worth suffering for... ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#suffering #men

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

#existentialism #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#god #love #openness #suffering #forgiveness

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hate #love #suffer #forgiveness

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#health #inspiration #inspirational #mindfulness #suffering