Suffering 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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  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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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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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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• 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 the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

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  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

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• 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

  Pain, Teaching, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Pain And Suffering, Strive, Endure

  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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  World Suffering, People, Trying

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

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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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• Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

  George Lucas

  Depression, Fear, Hate

  Patricia C. Wrede, George Lucas (2012). “Star Wars®: Episode I: The Phantom Menace”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

  Kami Garcia

  Teaching, Heart, Great Expectations

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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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  I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

  Charles Dickens

  Broken, Expectations, Shapes

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525

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• You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

  Jim Morrison

  Pain, People, Suffering

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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