Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

— Bruce Lee

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

— Bobby Fischer

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

— Pablo Neruda

“On the other hand, for those of us who have the tendency to believe that everything worthwhile should involve pain and suffering (like yours…

— Brené Brown

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.…

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“For many years, Tass's life was like an echo.”

— Bernice L. McFadden

“Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. ”

— Mocco Wollert

Love is not like the echo, which returneth only what is given; but, rather, like the pump, which returneth by the pail what it…

— Ivan Panin

It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone…

— Sharon Salzberg

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

But sometimes its hard to admit you're suffering too.It's like opening yourself up,knowing that you'll never be able to close yourself again.

— Nikkie

“all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more…

— Eckhart Tolle

“And like an echo, God often uses the repetitive events and themes in daily life to get my attention and draw me closer to…

— Margaret Feinberg

“Her full face was not soft; it was controlled, kindly. Her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted…

— John Steinbeck