Overcoming Suffering Quotes

#1. The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.

John Lancaster Spalding

#2. Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

#3. Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate?

Dalai Lama

#4. Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Whittaker Chambers

#6. Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Ming-Dao Deng

#7. When it comes to overcoming writing hurdles, getting sick is like suffering a review from a critic with an axe to grind; you can't let it get you down!

Max Hawthorne

#8. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

Kathleen Battle

#9. The World is full of pain,suffering and many situations we never want to face. Truth is we must overcome it all to move on to better,brighter days in our lives.Overcoming is the only way we can.

Timothy Pina

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

Helen Keller

#11. Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Ray Kurzweil

#12. The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

#13. If you endured the suffering, shall find the joy of overcoming any difficulty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

Derek Clayton