“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.” YearsEndsSufferingLanguageLosesAbilityTeachStudentsCapacityThirdsMedicinePatientMedical Author:Abraham Verghese
“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.” IfsFeelsDoeMatterPainSufferingForceLinesAbilityDoubtCryGreatnessWeakSlaveInternalsDistressWeak Women Book:The Gay Science Source: The Gay Science
“We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking!” IfsWorldWayNeedsGivingMayMeanFactsWisdomFacesYoungSufferingPoliticsImaginationAbilityVisionEconomyEconomicTasksFaultsEnthusiasmGrantedLiberalismEconomic SystemsCorrectingDrastic Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.” ThinkingMeanImportantSufferingAbilityCompassionEmpathyAppreciateVariousFactorsDeveloping Author:Dalai Lama
“The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.” GivingSufferingCausesAbility Author:Byron Katie
“The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.” RealityPainSufferingSpeakAbilityHonestlyRiding Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.” BelieveHumansSufferingDiesBeliefAbilityLove IsCreaturesBraveryRidiculousIrrelevantValidityGallantryAppropriateness Book:Job, a Comedy of Justice Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice