Causes Quote by Paulo Coelho

Pain is what the world inflicts upon us. Suffering is our emotional reaction when we fail to make the difficult conscious choice to choose…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

— Paulo Coelho

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

— Michael Pollan

“We may not ever understand why we suffer or be able to control the forces that cause our suffering, but we can have a…

— Harold S. Kushner

“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it.”

— Brian Staveley

Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying…

— Deepak Chopra

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

— John Sterling

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with…

— C. S. Lewis

“Only after experiencing pain can we enjoy pleasure and derive happiness from it.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo