Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pema Chodron

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Ram Dass

Suffering brings me so close to God.

Ram Dass

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Ram Dass

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

We're suffering from the 'shoot yourself in the foot' syndrome.

Billy Graham

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Billy Graham

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

Billy Graham

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Billy Graham

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

Billy Graham

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

William Shakespeare

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

Bianca Jagger

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

C. S. Lewis

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Carl Maria von Weber

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.

Carl Sagan

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

I'm suffering now so I won't have to suffer later,

Betty Dodson

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

Betty Smith

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

Carl Jung

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

Carl Jung

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Carl Jung

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

Carl Jung

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

We've got a whole lot of suffering people,

William Shakespeare

Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Why use them? Why show them? We have had enough suffering and we don't want any more.

Bertrand Russell

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . . . there is no evidence that they cause him unhappiness except when the sufferers happen to be his friends.

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

John Donne

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say.

John Milton

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

John Dewey

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

John Calvin

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.