Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Pema Chodron

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Peter Cohan

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

Phyllis McGinley

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Pitbull

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

Roger Daltrey

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

Thomas Mann

He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Merton

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 Carlyle

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Silvia Cartwright

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Lisa Bonet

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness

Linn Ullmann

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

Leo Tolstoy

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

Leo Tolstoy

How can one be well...when one suffers morally?

Leo Buscaglia

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Lewis Carroll

You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.

Juliet Marillier

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

Tom Stoppard

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Perrotta

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

Sam Harris

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

Ron Paul

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.

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.