Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Suffering does not discriminate.
Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.
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.