Suffering Quotes - Page 123

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The level of dependence on government among rural populations is actually extraordinary. They suffer even more when that assistance is taken away because they don't have access to the economic dynamism of cities. So if there are ways to tell stories that help people in rural areas see their kind of mutual need for care, that to me is the kind of thing that I want HuffPost to try and do.

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those who increase their service along with their understanding can be called men and women of Tao.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

The international community has been extracting concessions from the weaker side suffering under the occupation. For decades, this strategy has done absolutely nothing for the Palestinians. Now they are demanding that Hamas go the same route. We will not accept that. Extracting concessions is not the key to achieving peace. Pressure must be exerted on the occupier.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).

There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. How many of these graphic novels over the years are from really talented people? Most of them actually, if you look at them, are self-pitying confessionals about "poor me".

Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.