Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

We were not made to eternally weep.

Joy came always after pain.

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.

The path to joy leads through despair.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

I can't believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It's just so enlightening to me.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.