Abandon Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that…

— Herbert Marcuse

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can…

— Laurence Sterne

To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Willie Nelson

“Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of suffering is…

— Harold S. Kushner

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

— Pope Leo XIII

It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort…

— Pope Benedict XVI

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

— Adam Smith

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we…

— Orson F. Whitney

Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that…

— Revilo P. Oliver

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms,…

— Pema Chodron