When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.
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.
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
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.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.