Acting Quote by Marcus Aurelius

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but…

— Haruki Murakami

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

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

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be “taught a lesson,” when we really want to punish. We were depressed and…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.

— Timothy Keller

The pain is the outcome of our bad deeds.

— Samael Aun Weor

When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will…

— Dalai Lama

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

— John Milton