Suffering And Pain Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

  Thomas Merton

  Suffering Pain, World Suffering, People

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Encouragement, Religious, Mean

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hurt, Insignificant Things

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Gratitude

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• Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

  Helen Keller

  Pain, Believe, Helping Others

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Thank You, God, World Suffering

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

  Eric Mangini

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Strive

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Pain, Mistake

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  He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

  Aeschylus

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

  Helen Keller

  Pain, Long, Generosity

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon

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• Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Pain, Men, Suffering

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• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Character

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17

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• Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Pain, Men, Evil

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• Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Children, Pain

  Martin Luther (1956). “The sermon on the mount and the magnificat”

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• According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Suffering, Purpose

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.188, A&C Black

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• That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

  Oscar Romero

  Pain, Self, Blood

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