Saturday, October 6, 2007

The Virtue Of Suffering.




My personal trials have also taught me the value of unmerited suffering. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways that I could respond to my situation: either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Recognizing the necessity for suffering I have tried to make of it virtue. If only to save myself from bitterness, I have attempted to see my personal ordeals as an opportunity to transform myself and heal the people involved in the tragic situation, which now obtains. I have lived these last few years with the conviction that unearned suffering is redemptive.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.,



If I cannot avoid suffering anyhow, let me at least learn something from it.

- Ghostwise


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"You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering."

- Henri F. Amiel



For if we don't learn from our suffering, we are likely to suffer it again.

- Ghostwise



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