Suffering Quotes
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
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Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.
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"Oh, ancient god, whatever your name," whispered Ahmed. "Help this lost son of a good father, this evil boy who meant no harm but slept in school, ran errands slowly, did not pray from his heart, ignored his mother, and did not hold his family in great esteem. For all this I know I must suffer. But here in the midst of silence, at the desert's heart, where even the wind knows not my name? Must I die so young? Am I to be forgotten without having been?"
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Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?
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Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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One alternative that nearly always relieves our suffering is surrender: we surrender our false self, and our attachment to the notion that we can control anything.
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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
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No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.
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There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I don't need to add to it. So I just photograph peaceful things. A vase of flowers, a beautiful girl. Sometimes, through a peaceful face, I can bring something important into the world.
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The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.
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Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
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Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
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Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
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The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
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There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.
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Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
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Suffering is an illusion.
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Anyone who has come into contact with extreme pain, suffering or death has no trouble understanding Greek drama.
