#suffering

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#happiness #punishment #result #reward #suffering

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hope #love #pain #suffering #waiting

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#heart #life #suffering #life

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#blues #built #contemporary #contemporary music #depth

I believe in people, especially suffering people. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#especially #i #i believe #i believe in #people

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#countries #developing #limited #nor #suffering

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. ↗

— Silvia Cartwright

#developing #developing world #godless #greedy #seen

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #suffering #life

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #suffering #wounds #life