Anticipate Quote by Dorothee Solle

“We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it”

— Miriam Greenspan

“I have found the reason why people suffer. It's in their ego. It's in themselves. It's who they are. They don't deserve the suffering,…

— Robin Sacredfire

“Many people are unable to get rid of their pain completely because they haven't confronted themselves about their suffering.”

— Catherine Carrigan

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his…

— Luigi Pirandello

When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her.…

— Nhat Hanh

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,…

— James Allen

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference,…

— Honore de Balzac

“Just as the Buddha taught, it’s important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When we don’t…

— Pema Chödrön

“Suffering is not avoided, and is even sought for, simply because it is the hardest thing for man to deal with, and the greatest…

— Rodney Collin

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

— Marcus Thomas

People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own.…

— Carl Jung

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

— Allen Ginsberg