~ You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. ~
~ Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. ~
~ The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. ~
~ It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~
~ All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ~
~ Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ~
~ The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ~
~ You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. ~
~ Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ~
~ He who suffers much will know much ~
~ We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ~
~ It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ~