Suffering Quotes
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Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
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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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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.
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Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.
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No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I've done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.
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One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.
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I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.
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We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
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We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
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In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
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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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I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.
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I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.
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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
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Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.
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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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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
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Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.
