Suffering Quotes
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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.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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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.
John Lubbock
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Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.
Dalai Lama
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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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
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I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
Marquis De Custine
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The atheist believes a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
Pope Benedict XVI
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We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Liz Parrish
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Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
Jhene Aiko
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno
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I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
Jimmy Carter
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.
Patti Smith
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Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
D. Todd Christofferson
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More and more parents are coming to realize their children are suffering at the hands of a system built to strangle any reform, any innovation, or any change. . . . This realization is becoming more evident as the momentum builds for an education revolution.
Betsy DeVos
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Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.
Angelina Jolie
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Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
Charles Robert Maturin
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There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
Mother Teresa
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The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
Plato
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I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?
Andrea Corr
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A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
John Brown Gordon
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The root of suffering is attachment.
Gautama Buddha