“Statistics or graphs,’” are not optimal to understand the ‘experience of suffering.’” (qtd in Sutton 11)” — M.D Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
“Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)” — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
“Even if we have time, we don't come home to ourselves. We try to keep ourselves constantly entertained - watching television, socialising,… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Still, all humans had this shared experience—that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain,… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Rather than using pain as a motivator to accurately examine our lives, assume responsibility for our choices, and use our personal power… — Carmen Renee Berry Copy Share Image
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Contemplate that, as long as you are too focused on your self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“In daily life we experience suffering more often than pleasure. If we are patient, in the sense of taking suffering voluntarily upon… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Julia never asked herself why bad things happen to good people, for she already knew the answer: bad things happen t everyone.… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Life is not about fairness or unfairness. It is often unjust, claiming the good and the innocent as its victims. Life is… — Michael Mayne Copy Share Image
“The fact that each being has its own accordant suffering means that no matter who we are, whether we have a prominent… — Anyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“One way to evaluate our practice is to see whether life is more and more OK with us. And of course it’s… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
“In short, dwell on the negative and our experience here will be that of suffering, but change our minds and focus on… — Brad Olsen Copy Share Image
“When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace;… — Yogi Kanna Copy Share Image
It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
