A Quote by Sylvia Boorstein

Life is painful, suffering is optional. — © Sylvia Boorstein
Life is painful, suffering is optional.
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.
Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Long distance relationships are living proof that love is not just physical. I can feel you next to me even when you're thousands of miles away. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.
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