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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Helen Keller

The reward of suffering is experience.

Aeschylus

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

DOROTHY ROWE

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Adams Keller

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton

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

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people.

Anton Balasingham

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope

Bible

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit

Grover Cleveland

It is not a matter of how much pain or suffering one experiences that deems one as worthy. It is not how productive one is, either.

Lena Lees

Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

Frank Luntz

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Pope Benedict XVI

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

Santosh Kalwar

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

Hugo Chavez

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Samuel Smiles

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Princess of Wales Diana

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

Princess of Wales Diana

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Helen Keller

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.

Helen Keller

Sex is unclean, not because of the pleasure, but because of the suffering it brings

Theodore Roeszak

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Paulo Coelho

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

Alfred Capus

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Buddha

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