Emotional Suffering Quotes:

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Good Character, Soul Force

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1872). “Outre Mer. Driftwood”

topic: Inspiring, Forgiveness, Peace, Pain And Sorrow, Words Of Anger

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

topic: Inspiration, Emotional, Suffering, Emotional Suffering

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Loneliness, Emotional, Elderly, Emotional Suffering

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

topic: Loneliness, Emotional, Suffering, Emotional Suffering

As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY".

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Yoga, Emotional, Suffering, Warning Signs, Love My Self

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self Esteem, Recovery, Emotional, Emotional Suffering, High Self Esteem