Identity Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in which I…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes…

— Thomas Merton

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

— Lydia Millet

“Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet isn’t felt, an always discontent contentment, a pain that rages without hurting,…

— Luís Vaz de Camões

“As long as the self is consumed in the struggle to make itself lovely, it cannot love. First it must come to the end…

— Mike Mason

“to dedicate oneself as a Victim of Love is not to be dedicated to sweetness and consolations; it is to offer oneself to all…

— St. Thérèse de Lisieux

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

“Truth as a living power that takes possession of the internal being of a human and actually rescues him from false self-assertion is termed…

— Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

“There is a kind of joy even in the suffering that comes to you from the one you love. And even happiness that comes…

— Osho

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another

— Anonymous

“Pain and love cannot be in the same space. You can never love anyone in pain. You cannot truly love yourself in pain. The…

— Kemi Sogunle

Love without suffering does not exist

— Saint Bernadette