Suffering Quotes - Page 99

There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming, it systematically forces tens of billions of animals to suffer in ways that would be illegal if they were dogs, it is a decisive factor in the development of swine and avian flus, and so on.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.

Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.