I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug.

My love tastes like a raincloud. Best taken when suffering from desert mouth.


Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.