Suffering Quotes
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.
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Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
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Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.
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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
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When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
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I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
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Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.
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Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.
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Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person.
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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
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I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.
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When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
