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“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
“Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.”
“Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.”
“Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.”
“To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
“If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”
“Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
“Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.”
“The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.”
“Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.”
“And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.”
“Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.”
“Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever afte...”
“I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.”
“Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.”
“There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.”
“Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.”
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
