Quotes about suffering
suffering individual spite
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life. Sufjan Stevens
suffering way spirit
Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it. Sonia Choquette
suffering shows
I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. Steve Irwin
suffering disease realizing
I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody. Mother Teresa
suffering politician consequence
I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences. Peter Tosh
suffering idlers
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! Peter Kropotkin
suffering solutions
The solution to our suffering is our suffering! Peter Kreeft
suffering christ values
Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].
suffering causes majors
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering, Pema Chodron
suffering noble impermanence
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
suffering illusion
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
suffering looks want
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. Peter Cohan
suffering ingredients hospitality
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient. Phyllis McGinley
suffering add
As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD. Pitbull
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 students emotion
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason. Shunryu Suzuki
suffering stronger trouble
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before. Shinzo Abe
suffering despair existential
Despair is suffering without meaning. Viktor E. Frankl
suffering encounters existentialism
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
suffering heroic masochistic
To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
suffering spirit kind
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
suffering meaning-of-life mans-search-for-meaning
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
suffering concern humans
All human suffering concerns each human being Vaclav Havel
suffering child-abuse results
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. Stefan Molyneux
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 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.'