Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
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.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.