Quotes about suffer
suffering earth wilderness
Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force. Ralph Waldo Emerson
suffering injustice
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
suffering deals wells
It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question. Therese of Lisieux
suffering cost faces
How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.
suffering dying resistance
Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does. Terry Tempest Williams
suffering-of-others space helping
There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on. Teju Cole
suffering insult response
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths. Randall Robinson
suffering doe
Suffering does not discriminate. Shania Twain
suffering stronger trouble
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before. Shinzo Abe
suffering judgment impression
Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment. Marcus Aurelius
suffering medical-profession life-is
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? Marcia Angell
suffering complaining christ
Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?. Thomas a Kempis
suffering survivor
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it. Samuel Johnson
suffering lasts loved-ones
Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. Tom Perrotta
suffering morality treats
To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering. Sam Harris
suffering demand care
If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits. Ron Paul
suffering-of-others indifference traitor
He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human. Saadi
suffering-of-others bears monsters
One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude. Susan Ertz
suffering degrees organisation
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. Susan George
suffering trying way
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. Sharon Salzberg
suffering passing-away desire
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 attention belief
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
suffering who-we-are fullness
As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'
suffering misery undone
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. Swami Vivekananda
suffering today britain
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. Tony Benn
suffering workplace conflict
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. Tom Rath
suffering chance hunger
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. Simone Weil
suffering inferiors
He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer. Thomas Mann
suffering-pain world-suffering people
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. Thomas Merton
suffering-pain pain-and-suffering strive
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. Thomas Carlyle
suffering world west
We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. Silvia Cartwright
suffering elements might
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
suffering needs world
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.