Purposefully Untitled

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

- Jane Roberts

Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.

- Christiaan Barnard

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

- Mary Lyon

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

- John Cleese

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

- Willie Nelson

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

- William Butler Yeats

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

- Sigmund Freud

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

- Paulo Coelho