Suffering Quotes - Page 63

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it but if you believe in the divinity of Christ, you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.

I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.