“Life is painful, suffering is optional.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option”
“Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].”
“Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.”
“Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”