Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

El dolor es inevitable, el sufrimiento es opcional.

El dolor es inevitable, pero el sufrimiento es optativo.»

Going around in a sulk will get you nowhere. Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.

pain is inevitable,suffering is optional...
we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

If suffering is inevitable, if our problems in life are unavoidable, then the question we should be asking is not “How do I stop suffering?” but “Why am I suffering — for what purpose?

pain and loss are inevitable and we should let go of trying to resist them.

There are situations in which one is cut off from the opportunity to do one's work or enjoy one's life; but what can never be ruled out is the unavoidability of suffering. In accepting this challenge to suffer bravely, life has a meaning up to the last moment, and it retains this meaning literally to the end. In other words, life's meaning is an unconditional one, for it even includes the potential meaning of unavoidable suffering.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.