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When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives. If you confront the limitations of life courageously, that provides you with a certain psychological purpose that serves as an antidote to the suffering. It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal. Health outweighs all other blessings so much that one may really say that a healthy beggar is happier than an ailing king Clinging to temporary things gives them power over us, and they become sources of pain and fear. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.