Quotes about suffering
suffering human-nature capacity
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature. Margot Asquith
suffering bears crowns
Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear always precedes the crown we wear. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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unearned suffering is redemptive.
suffering ostracism violence
I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence
suffering literature may
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets ... Maria Edgeworth
suffering doubt circumstances
There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly. Marian Keyes
suffering stories bearable
All suffering is bearable if it is seen as part of a story. Isak Dinesen
suffering want worthwhile
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it. Iris Dement
suffering revolution purpose
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells
suffering humanitarianism overestimate
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. H. L. Mencken
suffering gold letters
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world. Greg Iles
suffering fascists enjoy
The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. Paul Erdos
suffering tools moral
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. Paul Farmer
suffering causes tests
Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth. Martha Beck
suffering world midst
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. Oswald Chambers
suffering alive exaltation
If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,
suffering want ordinary
I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great. Judd Apatow
suffering want aids
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. Princess Diana
suffering neptune blame
He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck. Publilius Syrus
suffering church way
Perhaps the Lord has called me and preserved me for this service not because I am particularly fit for it, or so that I can govern and rescue the Church from her present difficulties, but so that I can suffer something for the Church, and in that way it will be clear that he, and no other, is her guide and saviour Pope Paul VI
suffering inferiority negative
When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible. Nhat Hanh
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Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
suffering firsts fame
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
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When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
suffering path looks
The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.
suffering impermanence permanent
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
suffering sorrow needs
Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.
suffering trying facts
The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.
suffering great-happiness
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
suffering way path
The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
suffering needs helping
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.
suffering machines cogs
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them. Jiddu Krishnamurti
suffering affair made
When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.