#suffering

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#suffering

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#almighty god #among #efficacious #give #god

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#sight #spare #suffering #think #which

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#absolute truth #accepted #always #disappointment #doubt

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#go #grieving #had #her #i

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#cost #crime #death #defeat #even

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#because #brethren #burdens #grown #his

Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too, may have experienced a slap in my life, and am therefore speaking as a connoisseur. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life #suffering #life

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#before #body #ever #feel #greater

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay. ↗

— Cindy Margolis

#every #explore #hope #i #know