Barbara Ann Kipfer Quotes
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
-
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.
-
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.
-
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
-
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.
-
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.'
-
I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
-
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
-
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
-
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.
-
Grief causes suffering and disease.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It takes a lot of energy to teach.
-
'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'
-
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
-
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
-
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it seems as if he must belong to some other universe, he is imbued with poetry.
-
Some people can't see miracles when they're right in the middle of them.Better than seeing miracles that don't exist.You're determined to stand entirely alone, aren't you?That's where I've always stood.
-
When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.
-
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
