Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saadi

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

Tom Rath

Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

Simone Weil

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Swami Vivekananda

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Marcia Angell

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Thomas a Kempis

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

Sharon Salzberg

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

Sigmund Freud

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

Sigmund Freud

Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Scott Weiland

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

Steven Brust

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way... Instead of asking what you could do, you ought to have been asking what needs to be done.

Samuel Adams

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

Tariq Ramadan

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

Julius Caesar

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

Mother Teresa

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Mother Teresa

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

Kenzaburo Oe

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Ramana Maharshi

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Radhanath Swami

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

Radhanath Swami

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Tara Brach

The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.

Tara Brach

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Tara Brach

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Swami Vivekananda

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Susan Ertz

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

Susan George

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Sufjan Stevens

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

Sonia Choquette

Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.

Steve Irwin

I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.