Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eckhart Tolle

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Eckhart Tolle

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Edward Snowden

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

Brandon Sanderson

To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.

Ben Okri

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Baruch Spinoza

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

Benjamin Graham

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Anton Chekhov

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

Bela Lugosi

Women have a predestination to suffering.

Ban Ki-moon

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only the suffering God can help.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer.

Bodhidharma

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Brigham Young

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Bobby Fischer

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Antonio Guterres

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

Anwar Sadat

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Diego Rivera

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.