Suffering Quotes
Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.
Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.
Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.
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I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
The idea that when the health of one member suffers, the health of the whole body is lowered is a teaching of St Paul which is timeless.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.
I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.
Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It's just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.
We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.
The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?