Suffering Quotes
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Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
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My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.
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That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
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We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
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What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I was made fun of by a lot of the Factory people. Even Andy Warhol thought I was a hick.
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When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.
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I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
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Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.
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There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
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It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
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BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not trying to determine who should live or die. Everyone has a right to life without suffering.
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Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.
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Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.
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Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change.
