Suffering Quotes - Page 70

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

Through His Atonement, He heals not only the transgressor, but He also heals the innocent who suffer because of those transgressions. As the innocent exercise faith in the Savior and in His Atonement and forgive the transgressor, they too can be healed.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.

We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even in merciless death, a futile death that knows neither flower nor fruit has dignity as the death of a human being. If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.