Quote by Jessie Burton

“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”

— Stephen Richards

“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.”

— Julius Lester

“The demand being made of me was to treat the breakdown as if fear and frustration were not a part of it, to act…

— Arthur W. Frank

“TRUTH #1: Work is suffering. The ability to boss other people around destroys much of human decency.”

— Stanley Bing

“You are the creator of your own experience, and no one else has power within your experience. And that is true for everyone.”

— Esther

“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.”

— Shai Tubali

“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”

— Stephen Richards

“I choose to do my work to the best of my own abilities, and leave others to their own.”

— Erin Morgenstern

“Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.”

— Bryant McGill

“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort…

— George Orwell

“Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work.…

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer

“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