Quotes on Suffering

I have posted a couple of quotes on Suffering based upon the need of people to have some perspective on the topic. There are folks in my cyber life and real life who are in need of some comfort and peace. Our world needs healing and I think everyone needs a go-to person to help them find their way in life. Love and peace everyone.

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Former South Africa president Nelson Mandela

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

God is with us in everything, including suffering. God is with us in the valley.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Thomas Merton (via shannonsteele)

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34:18 (From the Holy Bible)