“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”

“The times when you are suffering can be those when you are most open, and where you are extremely vulnerable can be where you greatest strength really lies.Say to yourself: ‘I am not going to run away from this suffering. I want to use it in the best and richest way I can, so that I can become more compassionate and more helpful to others.’Suffering, after all, can teach us about compassion. If you suffer you will know how it is when others suffer. And if you are in a position to help others, it is through your suffering that you will find the understanding and compassion to do so.”

“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”

“You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.”