Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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.

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.

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

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

What is hell?…The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There’s a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.