“We became paid professionals of pain,
Specialists in suffering,
Aces of the ache,
Masters of the moan.”
Source: Call Us What We Carry
“. Loneliness was too big a punishment to bear. But surely, it was lesser than the pangs which she would have suffered from had she not revealed the truth”
Source: Lines of Fate: First Love and Other Stories
“We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.”
Source: Psychology in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
“Anxiety is a normal part of human existence, as are other forms of suffering. It is repression of our negative feelings that leads to psychological problems.”
Source: Psychology in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant
“To ease the guilt of noninvolvement, we charge the church with the job of meeting needs. We forget that we are the church! (p. 18)”
Source: Treasures of Encouragement: Women Helping Women in the Church
“Outpouring of emotion—grief, love, affection, anger, distrust . . . fill in the blanks. Emoticons replaced words on the internet. Without words, cohesive thought was replaced by an impulse signified by a smiling or sad face. Where would it end? Driving him to need an outpouring of wine, he expected.”
Source: Shared Sorrows
“The athletes at the highest level of our sport commit themselves to a life of discipline, hardship, sacrifice, and suffering.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“She’d transformed from an athlete who sat in her own suffering to an athlete who decided that facing her fears with a “just start” mindset was a more productive approach.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the
company of friends and from their inability to get in touch with them through the usual
channels of friendship, letters, trains, and boats. Others, fewer these, Tarrou may have
been one of them, had desired reunion with something they couldn't have defined, but
which seemed to them the only desirable thing on earth. For want of a better name, they
sometimes called it peace.”
“I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That was not a good enough reason.”