Arise Quote by Epictetus

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

— Suzanne Segal

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

— J. I. Packer

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous…

— Eckhart Tolle

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

— Brad Warner

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the…

— Paulo Coelho

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that…

— Adyashanti

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you…

— Pico Iyer

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

— Marcus Thomas