Suffering Quotes - Page 71

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.

I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

Personally, I'm afraid of suffering and afraid of dying. I'm also afraid of witnessing the suffering and death of those who are close to me. And no doubt I project these fears on those around me and those to come, which makes it impossible for me to understand why everyone isn't an antinatalist, just as I have to assume pronatalists can't understand why everyone isn't like them.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could do nothing. But that is because your suffering has caused you to phrase the question in the wrong way.

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.