#suffering

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#alive #been #book #dealing #four

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ↗

— Horace

#experience #instruction #life #name #parent

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#causes #does #flesh #form #most

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. ↗

— Saint Ignatius

#deserve #honor #i #i am #i do

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#energy #forward #hope #illuminating #into

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

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 forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#our #pleasures #remember #sufferings

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome. ↗