"Those folks who suffer most are just those who try hardest to make themselves into what they are not."

-- David Reynolds

"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."

-- Bob Marley

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

-- Krishnamurti

"We remain dissatisfied (suffering) as long as we are identified with an illusion of separateness."

-- Cheri Huber

"To the extent that we become obsessed with our wanting, we suffer."

-- Steve Hagen

"If you practice opening now, then you add less self-created suffering to life's natural fluctuation of pleasure and pain."

-- David Deida

"Every neurosis is a substitute for legitimate suffering."

-- Carl Jung

"There is nothing wrong with God's creation; mystery and suffering only exist in the mind."

-- Ramana Maharshi

"There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by."

-- George Meredith

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

-- Byron Katie

"A certain level of suffering is a necessary prerequisite for the journey."

-- Ram Dass

"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."

-- Sri Ramakrishna

"We all suffer the consequences of desire."

-- kd lang

"The sense that that things should be other than they are is suffering."

-- Wayne Liquorman

"We suffer when we are not willing to feel pain."

-- Cheri Huber

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer."

-- Byron Katie

"Seeking relief is suffering, not a way to eliminate it."

-- Lee Lozowick

"The hardest thing for a man to surrender is his own suffering."

-- P.D. Ouspensky

"Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, not by the things themselves."

-- Montaigne

"No suffering befalls the man who calls nothing his own."

-- The Dhammapada