Emotional Suffering Quotes

• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration, Emotional, Suffering

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Loneliness, Emotional, Elderly

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• Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Loneliness, Emotional, Suffering

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• As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

  Charlie Chaplin

  Yoga, Emotional, Suffering

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• If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Emotional

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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