Be creative Quote by Chinua Achebe

I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

— Cesare Pavese

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it…

— Madonna Ciccone

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as…

— William S. Burroughs

Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.

— Teresa of Avila

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

— Eckhart Tolle

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of…

— Mother Teresa

“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal