“They say that if you really love, you never want any harm to befall your beloved. While this may be true of “normal” love, I here attest that, in unrequited love, the case is quite the opposite. One begins to associate suffering with loving and, therefore, you begin to believe that the former begets the latter. If I can make him suffer, I can make him understand that he loves me.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“We are all capable of recognizing that we are not the only one who suffers, that the other person also suffers very deeply, and that we are partly responsible for his or her suffering.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“There is a tendency to speak about your suffering and difficulties so that you can draw more people to support you in order to fight the other side. That is a big temptation. You think if you are strong and you will have more support, the other side will have to withdraw. That is the hope of many people. But we know that activities based on that kind of thinking have gone on for many years without bearing any fruit at all.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“Sometimes it is easier to be angry than to express your own suffering.”
Source: Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other
“He had been suffering for months. He had been brooding for weeks. He had been thinking about just one thing for days. And now his mind was focusing on one single, clearly defined goal.”
Source: The Decagon House Murders
“When suffering from a relationship breakup, tell yourself that this, too, will pass. It will!”
Source: Geboor: Spiritual Fiction
“Don't become a stranger for me, for in doing so, you'll make me a stranger to my own self.”
“Now, the range of our possible sufferings is determined by the largeness and nobility of our aims. It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life. Indeed, if it be a man’s ambition to avoid the troubles of life, the recipe is perfectly simple — let him shed his ambitions in every direction, let him cut the wings of every soaring purpose, and let him assiduously cultivate a little life, with the fewest correspondences and relations.”
Source: The School of Calvary
“While a ribbon awaits Usain Bolt at the finishing line, for people like us, there is a concrete wall. When you reach the finishing line, you run straight into that wall.
Everything, your job, your credibility, your life itself, is at stake.”
Source: The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
“First of all, there were the sufferings which were incident to the very existence of a majestic purpose.”
Source: The School of Calvary