Carrie Quote by Seneca the Younger

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

— Ramana Maharshi

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions…

— Herman Melville

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

— Galileo Galilei

If nature puts a burden on a man by making him different, it also gives him a power.

— John Fire Lame Deer

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his…

— Luigi Pirandello

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's…

— Ajahn Chah

Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been…

— Herman Melville

Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been…

— George Ross Kirkpatrick

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear…

— Joseph Hertz

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.”

— Mark Manson

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow