Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Sleep [is like] a dove which has landed near one's hand and stays there as long as one does not pay any attention to it.

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.