Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

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

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

Jodi Picoult

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Jodi Picoult

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

John Green

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

John Green

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

John Green

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Markus Zusak

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition.

Margaret Mead

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Michael Lewis

There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

Melissa Marr

If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

Michael Tippett

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Patch Adams

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Park Geun-hye

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Park Dietz

One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Larry Wall

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...

Lafcadio Hearn

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Michel de Montaigne

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Marianne Williamson

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.