Barbara Ann Kipfer Quotes
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
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You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
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Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
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Grief causes suffering and disease.
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I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.
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Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
