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Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.