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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

There's this tendency to think of the individual and the collective are somehow at odds or separate. But I think that's really false. We're all both. And when the individual suffers, the collective suffers, and vice versa.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

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.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.