“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Out of massive suffering emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”— Khalil Gibran, purposefairy.com
“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain.”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maury Noble, amazon.com
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just li…”— Pema Chodron, amazon.com
“Love all the people you can. The suffering from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.”— Susan Hale, amazon.com
“I didn’t feel like a whole person anymore. I felt like I was … like not even half, like I was just a portion of a human being. I just felt filthy and disgusting. I felt like, Who could ever want me back? Who could ever want to talk to me? Who would ever be my friend? I don’t know what the exact defi…”— Elizabeth A. Smart, amazon.com
“I said that someone looks down on each of us in difficult hours; a friend wife, somebody alive or dead, or a God—and would not expect us to disappoint him. He would hope to find us suffering proudly—not miserably—knowing how to die.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”— Viktor E. Frankl, amazon.com
“So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no one else has ever suffered as He suffered. As if millions have not shuffled to worse deaths, and died unremembered.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“I’ve always thought that when something really bad happens to a person, other people just have to know about it. You can’t be a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear you crash.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“In every life, there is struggle. No one is immune from pain and suffering. But it won’t last. Life moves forward. The circumstances will change. This applies to both the bad feelings and the good. Nothing lasts forever. When you think about this, the only moment you really have is the present, and…”— Khloé Kardashian, amazon.com
“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will kee…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com