#Suffering is an unavoidable part of life. If you're lucky, this means bereavement, heartbreak, and the occasional but curable illness. For others, though, life brings terrible mental breakdowns, debilitating sicknesses, or unimaginable pain. Yet, as #Dostoevsky wrote, ‘Man is a creature who can get used to anything.’ We're a resilient and hardy species with a monumental capacity to endure. This is what Viktor Frankl, who survived Auschwitz, wrote about in his #book Man's Search for Meaning. #Fr

Life is pervaded by suffering, and this suffering must be meaningful. One of the problems of life is meaningless suffering. "The meaninglessness of suffering not the suffering, was the curse that lay over mankind so far" - Nietzsche.

SUFFERING definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

Jesus, the God Who Became One of Us and Understands Our Suffering - Eternal Perspective Ministries

The Science of Happiness in Positive Psychology 101

What is the difference between pain and suffering? We all experience emotional challenges in life which can be uncomfortable and a source of great pain. Emotions themselves are collections of physical sensations in the body that we label and often then try to ‘move toward’ or ‘away from’ depending on how they make us feel. For many of us as soon as the label is given to what we are experiencing we intrinsically go to our heads to problem solve, fix or strategise how to get past what we are feeli