Suffering Quotes - Page 53

We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

In the valley of suffering, despair and bitterness are brewed. But there also character is made. The valley of suffering is the vale of soul-making.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.

It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.