Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Molyneux

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

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.

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.

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.

Swami Vivekananda

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

Swami Vivekananda

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

Ron Fournier

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

Rollo May

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Rumi

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

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.

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.

T. S. Eliot

We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. Eliot

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

Susan Sontag

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.

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.