It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
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 by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.