Suffering Quotes
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.
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One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.
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I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
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She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
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Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
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To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.
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With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
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The root of suffering is attachment.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
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May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.
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Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it's also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.
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One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.
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I feel that people who understand the horrible things that young emaciated models go through really champion the cause of realistic standards in fashion. You only have to see one person suffering to understand how truly horrible the industry is to these girls.
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It took the Fire Brigade a day and a half to secure the remains of the house enough to recover Crew Cut’s body, which was described by Dr Jennifer Vaughan as ‘suffering from crush trauma’ and by Dr Walid as ‘mostly flat’.
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I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
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Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.
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The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.
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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
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When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.
