Suffering Quotes - Page 45

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?

Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

How can it be "mutually beneficial" to sell at world market prices the raw materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and suffering.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.