Every child is born with two parents but what’s sad is often times, only one of them makes all the sacrifices.

Life is Like a Box of Chocolates, You Never Know What You're Going to Get.

It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

…-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I’d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity,

Suffering is the true cement of love

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference