The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The reward of suffering is experience.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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.