For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian?

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering.