Suffering Quotes
Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.
I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)
Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.
Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.
Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.
Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.
The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.
If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.
I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me
I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.
Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
Everything is as it is at any moment. There's no way of arguing, because you are arguing with reality - the isness of this moment. You can argue with it, but that's suffering.
... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in such endeavor, and it invariably ends in some form of suffering.
Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher; their suffering is the teacher.
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.