Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying