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

— J. I. Packer

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is…

— Sharon Salzberg

I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to…

— Thea Bowman

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

— Maya Tiwari

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

To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration to practice…

— Dalai Lama

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the…

— David Ben-Gurion

Suffering is Never been desirable but it can teach me.

— Anonymous

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

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

— Elie Wiesel

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

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

— Willie Nelson