Suffering touches every human life. When we learn to distinguish between necessary and unnecessary suffering, pain can become more than something to just endure.

Few questions make the human brain itch more than this one: if karma is real, why do genuinely kind people still deal with heartbreak, bad luck, and neighbors who practice the drums at 2 a.m.? We’ve ...

Phillipa Munari started antidepressants in 2003. Her doctor recommended one, she said, after she complained of feeling tired. She didn't think it helped, but she kept taking it anyway. When she ...

One of life’s most eerie questions is, why do good people suffer more than others? If good were to be rewarded and evil deeds punished, then wouldn’t kind, honest, and morally upright souls walk more ...

Elie Wiesel vowed to always speak up whenever people were enduring suffering and humiliation, including in both Palestine and the former Yugoslavia. “He saw the trauma as something that has to lead to ...

Author and New York Times columnist David Brooks noted that profound suffering can often lead to a sense of calling and purpose. Brooks said, People (who) have suffered almost always have this sense ...