Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Freire

Education is suffering from narration sickness.

Edward Dahlberg

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Eckhart Tolle

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

Eckhart Tolle

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Eckhart Tolle

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

Holbrook Jackson

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

Hermann Hesse

All life is a breath exhaled by God. All dying is a breath inhaled by God.

Hermann Hesse

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured....

Hermann Hesse

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Hermann Hesse

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

Henry Van Dyke

Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

Henri Nouwen

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Henri Nouwen

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

Laurence Sterne

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

Laura Hillenbrand

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Luc de Clapiers

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

Malcolm Turnbull

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

John Adams

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

Louise Hay

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

Matthieu Ricard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

Matthieu Ricard

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

Matthieu Ricard

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

Matthew Arnold

And amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne.

Plato

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

Plato

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

Plato

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Plato

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Khaled Hosseini

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.