We have two lives, ..., the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.

There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.

In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Only suffering draws The inner heart of song, and can elicit The perfumes of the soul.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

Sufferings are lessons.

There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.