“We must learn to suffer more.”

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

“…we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

“Fellowship with Jesus lies not alone in pleasurable emotions; you must learn it in suffering and in service.”

Anna Shipton (1815–1901) British religious writer

“We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding.”

Edward Teller (1908–2003) Hungarian-American nuclear physicist

“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

“To earn more, you must learn more.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.”

Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate

“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.”

Isabel Allende book La somma dei giorni

“Suffering is an excellent teacher, and Aeschylus says, "We learn by sufferings. "We are easily] up; sufferings keep us humble. We easily turn to worldly things. Sufferings make us turn to ( love ourselves; sufferings teach us to love God."”

Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman