Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kornfield

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

Jack Kornfield

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Jack Kornfield

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

J. I. Packer

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

Ivor Novello

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Jack Kevorkian

My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized.

Jack Abbott

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Isabel Allende

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Isabel Allende

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

Harrison Ford

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Guy Pearce

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Gwen John

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.

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

Kirk Cameron

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is #‎ unstoppable .

Kenneth Scott Latourette

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Kathleen Turner

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly

Karl Marx

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

Glen Cook

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Horace

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Jeremy Bentham

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Jean de La Fontaine

Better to suffer than to die.

Jim Bridenstine

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

Jacqueline Carey

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Fulton J. Sheen

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Fulton J. Sheen

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.