“To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.”

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.”

“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”

“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”

“My sole occupation is love.
All my occupation now is the practice of the love of God, all the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all work in and by love. All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love.”

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

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.”

“The more you love, the more you suffer”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.”