Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma GandhiPain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Haruki MurakamiOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil GibranThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
AristotleI do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark TwainIf she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont 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.
Bob MarleyBut there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.
Paulo CoelhoAlthough the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen KellerHuman beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo CoelhoMuch of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil GibranMen cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune
AristotleWhy don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
Henny YoungmanSex is better than talk...Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
Woody AllenIt is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel JohnsonGratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Joseph StalinAbsence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore RooseveltThe true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
AristotleWe must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret, or disappointment.
Jim RohnSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleTo perceive is to suffer.
AristotleThis is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
AristotleLife is suffering.
BuddhaIf the other person injures you, you may forget the injury, but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil GibranHave compassion for all beings rich and poor alike, each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
BuddhaThere is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Mother TeresaFor all mortals birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
BuddhaThis indeed is a safe refuge, it is the refuge supreme. It is the refuge whereby one is freed from all suffering.
Buddha