“The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.”

“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”

“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.”

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.”

“Your capacity to experience the fullness of life is directly proportionate to your capacity to experience the fullness of love.”