From the Chat:

From  Erika Mittag

 "You learn how to suffer. If you know how to suffer, you suffer much, much less. And then you know how to make good use of suffering to create joy and happiness." Thich Nhat Hahn

Someone has also quoted him to say not to wait for suffering to be over to experience joy and happiness

From  Tobin Quereau

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.  - Pema Chodron  

From  Galia and Howard 

“In Minnesota, even the Catholics are Lutheran” — Garrison Keillor