Suffering Quotes - Page 147

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

I feel like everybody needs to take a sabbatical and go to Russia and Africa and work in orphanages and really witness true suffering. And then you'll just feel ridiculous for ever complaining about anything. Everybody needs that kind of reality check.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.