“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The way we imagine 'us' must include people living in poverty, because there is just the one world.”— John Green, youtube.com
“The reach of my online life can feel infinite, but it isn't. And that inevitably creates an empathy gap. As Bill and Melinda put it in their letter, "There is overwhelming evidence that people care about others who are suffering when they can see that suffering.”— John Green, youtube.com
“How many more ppl have to end their own lives before we start talking openly about mental health? How many must continue to silently suffer.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“To heal in difficult times bring a tender, healing energy to all that is sick or torn, what is broken or lost.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Living with the insistence that the past should be other than what it is is hopeless, yet people suffer in this way.”— Phillip Moffitt, twitter.com
“We’re being trained through our incarnations–trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.”— Ram Dass, twitter.com
“The 1st arrow is the painful experience. The 2nd arrow is the one we shoot into ourselves. This arrow is optional.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Empaths, poets, dreamers, feelers, wishers... whatever we are, we're barely holding on.”— Emmily, twitter.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“It's true: pain and suffering helps to create what we call art. given the choice I'd never choose this damned pain and suffering for myself but somehow it finds me as the royalties continue to roll on in.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“For those suffering from depression, the world has fallen apart every day and is put back together the next day.”— Emily Casalena, screenrant.com
“Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast"?”— Diane Ackerman, amazon.com
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“When we’re bombarded with our anxiety, we have no choice but to work through it. Sometimes that means reaching out to others, and other times it means suffering in silence.”— Myka Shantell, thoughtcatalog.com
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.”— Joe Abercrombie, amazon.com