In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Suffering is an illusion.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values are manifested.

Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

It may be that we try to remember God when we are comfortably placed. But the test as to whether He has really entered our hearts is whether we remember Him in sickness, suffering, opposition and times of temptation.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering—that also is through human intelligence.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self-created suffering comes to an end.

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

To the degree we want to serve, to that degree, gradually, according to our sincerity we eliminate all suffering.

Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.