#suffering

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

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#smile #suffering #love

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#suffering #love

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’s often a reason why people and dogs bite. It’s about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#dogs #inspirational #self-protection #suffering #understanding

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish. ↗

— Ambrose of Milan

#inspiration #salvation #suffering #inspirational

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#inspirational #self-awareness #suffering #inspirational

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility. ↗

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

#eastern-orthodoxy #humility #inspirational #spirituality #suffering