Suffering Quotes
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
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The sex was so passionate it bordered on violence. It was not vanilla. It was passion as suffering.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
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We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
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Man does not fear death, only the suffering.
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The nature of everything is illusory and impermanent. Those with dualistic perception believe suffering is happiness. It is as though they are licking honey from a razor blade. How sad it is that they grasp to a concrete reality. Turn your attention within.
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God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.
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Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it - that is what you must do.
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in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
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Jesus taught us how to forgive out of love, how to forget out of humility. So let us examine our hearts and see if there is any unforgiven hurt -- any unforgotten bitterness! It is easy to love those who are far away. It isn't always easy to love those who are right next to us. It is easier to offer food to the hungry than to answer the lonely suffering of someone who lacks love right in one
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We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.
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I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
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The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.
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God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.
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Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
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Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.
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The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.
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The bulk of suffering does not stem from 'dreadful' experiences but rather from frightening beliefs.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes.
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In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
