“They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.”

“It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”

“Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.”

“Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.”

“I don't know. Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than just to be ... safe. At least she knows she's living.”

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

“In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.”