“Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people”
George Wallace
“Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them - these are the best guides for man”
Albert Einstein
“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 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
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
C.S. Lewis
“People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
