lessons from suffering Quotes

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach.

The reward of suffering is experience

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.