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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

— Edward Bach

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

— Walter Kaufmann

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

— Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

— Miguel de Unamuno

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

— Srikumar Rao

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

— Horace

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

— Nhat Hanh

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

— Jane Roberts

✗Opposing Perspectives

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

— Judith Jamison