Gautama Buddha Quotes

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

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• Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Boredom

• 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.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• 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.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

  

  Otto Dix
  • People
  • War
  • Fear

• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Soul
  • Sickness
  • Bright

• Grief causes suffering and disease.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Work
  • Pain

• Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• Every time we ignore the suffering of others or stand by and watch, we do not only act against our own interests but we violate a part of our humanity.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Time
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Action
  • Suffering

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.

  

  David Harewood
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Hand
  • Suffering

• Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • World
  • Men
  • Lost

• Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

  

  Plato
  • Fear
  • Suffering

• No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Trying
  • Nature

• In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Suffering
  • Patience
  • Sympathy

• Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Energy

• So many people in this world get up every day and go to their nine-to-five job they hate for 12 months a year for 30 years. I kind of do a self-check and evaluation to realize I'm very blessed and grateful to be where I am.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Blessed

• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Sickness
  • Mortals