Ability Quote by David A. Bednar

“Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere fragmentary reflexion,…

— Marcel Proust

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and…

— Flannery O'Connor

The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.

— Mo Yan

“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

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we…

— Orson F. Whitney

“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate…

— Bryant McGill

“In virtually every spiritual tradition, suffering is seen as a doorway to awakening. In the West, this connection can be seen in the biblical…

— Peter A. Levine

“We are allowed to suffer and allowed to observe the sufferings of others, which is sometimes even more difficult, so that we might better…

— Serena Chase

“Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of the human.…

— Gary Greenberg

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

— Anton Chekhov

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

— Eckhart Tolle