Suffering

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"Pain is inevitable,suffering is optional."

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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

"One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance."

"If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever."

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

"The struggle you suffer today will become your success story one day."

"The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"All suffering is caused by ignorance."

"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering."

"I call him religious who understands the suffering of others."