Suffering Quotes
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Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.
Jack White The White Stripes
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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.
Ajahn Chah
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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.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
Saul Bellow
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Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.
Mother Teresa
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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.
Laurie Anderson
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Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.
Edmund Clowney
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It is very important to develop a relationship with Jesus. It is amazing to think that because He saw we were suffering and struggling with our flesh, He left heaven, where everything was so wonderful, and voluntarily took those sufferings upon Himself to open a way for us! We also have to suffer, but it's not so hard when we love.
Esther Smith
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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.
Alice Mattison
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
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Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
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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.
Carolyn Hax
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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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.
Melissa Leo
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
Emily Yoffe
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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.
Helen Keller
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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.
William Fritz
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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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.
Edouard Bourdet
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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
Emily Prager
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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.
Elena Ferrante