Suffering Quotes - Page 156

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

If you know something bad is coming, can't you plan to avoid it or try to do something differently?" said Charles. Probably", said the Cartographer, "but then the good events would have no flavor. The joy you find in life is paid for by suffering that comes later, just as sometimes, the suffering is redeemed by a joy unexpected. That's the trade that makes a life worth living.

I am willing to accept that there are women out there who say they have chosen to sell sex. But they are in the minority, and laws are there to protect the majority. In this case, the majority of women in prostitution want to get out, and suffer violence and exploitation. If there are women who have made a free choice, there are more who have had no choice.

I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

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

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.

Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

No Victory Without Suffering

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

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

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.[Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.