Voluntary Suffering Quotes

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.

Nothing that is totally voluntary that is painful, ever works.

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.