Suffering Quotes - Page 58

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Disciples will not be weakened by suffering, worn down, and embittered until they are broken. Instead, they bear suffering, by the power of him who supports them. The disciples bear the suffering laid on them only by the power of him who bears all suffering on the cross. As bearers of suffering, they stand in communion with the Crucified.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.