Peter A. Levine Quotes

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

Peter A. Levine

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Serious

• The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Past
  • Universe
  • Understand

• In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Past
  • Difficult

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Real
  • Family
  • Together

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Fate

• I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Past
  • Wish
  • Car

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Past

• For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Past
  • Present

• The important thing was that I had never behaved inappropriately toward any woman, and I had no intention of letting my enemies hang that age-old charge of sexual impropriety around my neck. Those who wished only to exploit my past failings, not forgive them, would get no help from me.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Important
  • Help
  • Age

• I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Important
  • Past

• We fret ourselves to reform life, in order that posterity may be happy, and posterity will say as usual: 'In the past it used to be better, the present is worse than the past.'

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • May
  • Happy

• Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wise Men

• And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • She
  • Reflection

• Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

  

  William Osler
  • Work
  • Past
  • Energy

• Leaders spend 5% of their time on the problem & 95% of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Solution

• It's right that in certain polls there has been a little downturn, but I am sure that no one doubts who will form the next government.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Government
  • Doubts
  • Downturn

• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

  

  Peter A. Levine
  • Past
  • Suffering
  • Looks