Suffering Quotes - Page 117

Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

The Work is four questions and a turnaround. The Work is a way to identify and question the thoughts that cause all the suffering and violence in the world. The Work is a very, very simple process. It's for anyone who can answer a question that is willing to. It takes a bit of willingness and an open mind.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking.

The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

Experience is the extract of suffering.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.