Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)

I believe in people, especially suffering people. (Quote by - Pat Buckley)

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. (Quote by - Miguel Angel Ruiz)

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? (Quote by - Caroline Norton)

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. (Quote by - Robert Orben)

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. (Quote by - Les Brown)

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. (Quote by - Isabelle Adjani)

Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans. (The Iliad) (Quote by - Homer)

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living. (Quote by - Dashiell Hammett)

It is by suffering that human beings become angels. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. (Quote by - Thomas Holcroft)

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)