I’ve never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Despair is suffering without meaning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, – these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, – these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever

I like to challenge myself. I like to take myself out of my comfort zone and push the envelope

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility.

Those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome cannot see that for 63 million Americans, voting for Trump was an obviously rational decision.

There are things to be afraid of – like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I’ve experienced, and climate change, despots – but there’s really nothing to be afraid of when your job is an actor and you’re at work, if you’re in a place that is safe and full of respect and love, which we are.

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure

He longs to give us a magnificent reward. He knows that suffering is the only means of preparing us to know Him as He knows Himself, and to become ourselves divine

I’m suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That’s the point!

Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends

There’s been a problem, a problem eating away at me from the inside out. I’ve become weak, I’ve shown human compassion, and it has weakened me. But no more. Tonight I will once again feast on fear and suffering. My appetite for agony will be awakened. I will once again taste the pain of others. I will feast on the fear of the innocent, and that is the sweetest taste of all. Tonight I hunger for a sacrifice.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

We who grew up with ‘drop and cover’ drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

Besides, we weren’t made to battle villains, because there weren’t any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than another; all were flawed, all were equally doomed to suffering, mostly because they couldn’t see that they were all alike. Mortals might have been contemptible, true, but not evil entirely. They did enjoy killing one another and frequently came up with ingenious excuses for doing so on a grand scale-religions, economic theories, ethnic pride-but we couldn’t condemn them for it, as it was in their mortal natures and they were too stupid to know any better.

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

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

What day is it?”, asked Winnie the Pooh “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet “My favorite day,” said Pooh

Some have brains, and some haven’t, … and there it is.

But it isn’t easy,’ said Pooh. ‘Because Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you’re surprised? Say you like it? Say it’s just what you wanted? Because it’s yours- because we love you.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.

I did know once, only I’ve sort of forgotten.

If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.

What day is it?” It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. My favorite day,” said Pooh.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?

But they also confuse two distinct occupations: cooks and chefs. Cooks do it at home for love. Chefs do it in public for money. Dinner parties are karaoke cheffery.

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn’t take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

Oswald Cabal: There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most

Living a spiritual life isn’t about moving past the pain and suffering, but instead embracing it. When we honor our suffering we become safe enough to face the dark corners and bring them to the light.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay.

If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created.

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

In such situations, of course, people don’t nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that’s the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer’s delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn’t be moaning.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Only through sufering can we find ourselves.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Become who you are!

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

She keeps her Moet et Chandon

In her pretty cabinet

‘Let them eat cake’, she says

Just like Marie Antoinette

Of all the more theatrical rock performers, Freddie took it further than the rest… he took it over the edge..

Sometimes I feel so sad, so sad, so bad

But no-one’s gonna stop me now, no-one.

Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don’t want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you’re going to meet down there

It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe … but not for us.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not

This is a good place,” he said. “There’s a lot of liquor,” I agreed.

How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique – and insignificant.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

Consciousness is nature’s nightmare.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

You’re at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. 

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

He who criticizes, be he ever so honest, must suggest a practical remedy or he soon descends from the height of a critic to the level of a common scold.

The line between failure and success is so fine. . . that we are often on the line and do not know it.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

It would be a dream if 2015 was like 2014 or even better

I don’t relax, I don’t celebrate. I sit and plot.

You can’t fear success and I think a lot of people do… I’m not like that. I’m going for it.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Roads were made for journeys not destinations

Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

I’m not militant about atheism, but I feel like religion has been imposed on me.

There is no success without suffering. I think that the word ‘suffering’ was meant to mean tremendous effort and direction.

Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world.

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.

Love is joy. Don’t convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Optimism that does not count the cost is like a house builded on sand. A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

Sorrow is like the quieting caress of the dark. It veils the too glaring light of material day, and lets our minds behold the spiritual stars the sun hid from us

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

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.

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

It isn’t the ups and downs that make life difficult; it’s the jerks.