Suffering Quotes
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
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The only cause of happiness is love and the only cause of suffering is attachment to the ego (the continuing need to satisfy the self). If you understand this, you understand the work of Karma, cause and effect, perfectly. All suffering without exception comes from the desire for one's own personal happiness.
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Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such qualities has to endure.
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Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.
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I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.
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Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
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You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
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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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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
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Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
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Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
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It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
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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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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
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Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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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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When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
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Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.
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It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
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It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
