"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;
the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
Ben Okri
"What a remarkable obligation toward another human being
is enclosed in the act of reading or listening."
Rita Charon
the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." Friedrich Nietzsche
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
Ben Okri
"What a remarkable obligation toward another human being
is enclosed in the act of reading or listening."
Rita Charon