Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doe….

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth..

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering..

When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at firs….

Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end….

There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffe….

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress... Our only safety is in pursuing a steady course of firm restriction - and I ha….

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet….

Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frant….

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering..

Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hu….

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery..

No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opp….

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught..

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too..

Suffering is the way for Realization of God..

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering..

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderne….

By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will..

Man suffers through lack of faith in God..

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance..