Calamity Quote by Pico Iyer

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

— Maya Tiwari

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

— Suzanne Segal

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that…

— Adyashanti

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

— Pope Francis

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

— Epictetus

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched…

— Billy Graham

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

— J. I. Packer

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the…

— Rollo May

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,…

— James Allen

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

— Brad Warner

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