I realize that is a bold claim, but emotional suffering is…

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

— Charles R. Swindoll

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and…

— Dan Millman

“The quicker you can let go of your emotional suffering, the sooner you can be done with your physical pain.”

— Catherine Carrigan

“The noise of the town some floors below was greatly muted. In a state of complete mental detachment, he went over the events, the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“When we psychologize human suffering, we narrow our focus to the individual—perhaps in order to be less overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of human…

— Miriam Greenspan

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

— Nathaniel Branden

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

— Helen Keller

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own…

— Charlie Chaplin

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own…

— Charlie Chaplin

Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we…

— Martha Beck

“Like art, love is an act of creation, but love far surpasses art as a cure for emotional suffering.”

— George E. Valliant

“If you’ve been in physical pain or emotional suffering for a long period of time, you have to ask yourself if you are either…

— Catherine Carrigan