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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.

— David Ben-Gurion

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✓Similar Perspectives

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

— Rob Bell

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

— Walter Kaufmann

The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

— Willie Nelson

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

— Franz Kafka

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.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

— Miguel de Unamuno

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

— Helen Keller

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.

— Edward Bach

✗Opposing Perspectives

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

— Katherine Boo