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title: "27 Experience Suffering Quotes by 24 authors"
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> [“Statistics or graphs,’” are not optimal to understand the ‘experience of suffering.’” (qtd in Sutton 11)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-d-paul-farmer/statistics-or-graphs-are-not-optimal-to-understand-the-experience-of/)

[M.D Paul Farmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-d-paul-farmer/)

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> [“Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/melissa-rose-lawrence/humans-must-experience-suffering-in-order-to-comprehend-the/)

[Melissa Rose Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/melissa-rose-lawrence/)

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> [“We learn and experience ourselves only through suffering; everything else is humbug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sir-kristian-goldmund-aumann/we-learn-and-experience-ourselves-only-through-suffering-everything/)

[sir kristian goldmund aumann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sir-kristian-goldmund-aumann/)

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> [It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathya-sai-baba/it-is-when-you-experience-another-s-suffering-as-your-own-that-your/)

[Sathya Sai Baba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathya-sai-baba/)

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> [Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-walker/abortion-for-many-women-is-more-than-an-experience-of-suffering/)

[Alice Walker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-walker/)

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> [Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-watts/pain-is-such-an-important-thing-in-life-i-think-that-as-an-artist-you/)

[Naomi Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-watts/)

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> [“When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/art-hochberg/when-you-are-around-people-who-are-really-suffering-you-get-to/)

[Art Hochberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/art-hochberg/)

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> [“Even if we have time, we don't come home to ourselves. We try to keep ourselves constantly entertained - watching television, socialising,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/even-if-we-have-time-we-don-t-come-home-to-ourselves-we-try-to-keep/)

[Thich Nhat Hanh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/th-ch-nh-t-h-nh/)

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> [“Still, all humans had this shared experience—that of suffering. No human being left this world without shedding a tear, or feeling pain,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvain-reynard/still-all-humans-had-this-shared-experience-that-of-suffering-no/)

[Sylvain Reynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvain-reynard/)

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> [“Rather than using pain as a motivator to accurately examine our lives, assume responsibility for our choices, and use our personal power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-renee-berry/rather-than-using-pain-as-a-motivator-to-accurately-examine-our-lives/)

[Carmen Renee Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-renee-berry/)

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> [Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthieu-ricard/neuroscience-has-proven-that-similar-areas-of-the-brain-are-activated/)

[Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthieu-ricard/)

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> [“Bad things happen to everyone. Not that this was an excuse or a justification for wronging another human being. Still, all humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvain-reynard/bad-things-happen-to-everyone-not-that-this-was-an-excuse-or-a/)

[Sylvain Reynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvain-reynard/)

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> [“Contemplate that, as long as you are too focused on your self-importance and too caught up in thinking about how you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/contemplate-that-as-long-as-you-are-too-focused-on-your-self/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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> [To the extent that our experience of suffering reminds us of what everyone else also endures, it serves as a powerful inspiration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama/to-the-extent-that-our-experience-of-suffering-reminds-us-of-what/)

[Dalai Lama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ajahn-chah/peace-is-within-oneself-to-be-found-in-the-same-place-as-agitation/)

[Ajahn Chah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ajahn-chah/)

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> [“In daily life we experience suffering more often than pleasure. If we are patient, in the sense of taking suffering voluntarily upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dalai-lama-xiv/in-daily-life-we-experience-suffering-more-often-than-pleasure-if-we/)

[Dalai Lama XIV](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dalai-lama-xiv/)

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> [“Julia never asked herself why bad things happen to good people, for she already knew the answer: bad things happen t everyone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvain-reynard/julia-never-asked-herself-why-bad-things-happen-to-good-people-for/)

[Sylvain Reynard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvain-reynard/)

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> [My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/my-children-cause-me-the-most-exquisite-suffering-of-which-i-have-any/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [“We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gangaji/we-have-tried-everything-to-get-rid-of-suffering-we-have-gone/)

[Gangaji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gangaji/)

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> [“Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alaric-hutchinson/eventually-it-boils-down-to-two-choices-do-i-wish-to-experience-this/)

[Alaric Hutchinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alaric-hutchinson/)

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> [“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/i-had-a-teacher-i-liked-who-used-to-say-good-fiction-s-job-was-to-2/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [“Life is not about fairness or unfairness. It is often unjust, claiming the good and the innocent as its victims. Life is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-mayne/life-is-not-about-fairness-or-unfairness-it-is-often-unjust-claiming/)

[Michael Mayne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-mayne/)

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> [“The fact that each being has its own accordant suffering means that no matter who we are, whether we have a prominent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anyen-rinpoche/the-fact-that-each-being-has-its-own-accordant-suffering-means-that/)

[Anyen Rinpoche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anyen-rinpoche/)

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> [“One way to evaluate our practice is to see whether life is more and more OK with us. And of course it’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-j-beck/one-way-to-evaluate-our-practice-is-to-see-whether-life-is-more-and/)

[Charlotte J. Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-j-beck/)

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> [“In short, dwell on the negative and our experience here will be that of suffering, but change our minds and focus on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-olsen/in-short-dwell-on-the-negative-and-our-experience-here-will-be-that/)

[Brad Olsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-olsen/)

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> [“When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yogi-kanna/when-you-are-at-unease-with-what-is-you-experience-suffering-when-you/)

[Yogi Kanna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yogi-kanna/)

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> [It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-eastwood/it-s-easy-to-just-see-what-you-want-to-see-in-your-own-comfort-bubble/)

[Alison Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-eastwood/)

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                        "text": "My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.",
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                        "text": "“One way to evaluate our practice is to see whether life is more and more OK with us. And of course it’s fine when we can’t say that, but still it is our practice. When something’s OK with us we accept everything we are with it; we accept our protest, our struggle, our confusion, the fact that we’re not getting anywhere according to our view of things. And we are willing for all those things to continue: the struggle, the pain, the confusion. In a way that is the training of sesshin. As we sit through it an understanding slowly increases: “Yes, I’m going through this and I don’t like it—wish I could run out—and somehow, it’s OK.” That increases. For example: you may enjoy life with your partner, and think, “Wow, this is the one for me!” Suddenly he or she leaves you; the sharp suffering and the experience of that suffering is the OKness. As we sit in zazen, we’re digging our way into this koan, this paradox which supports our life. More and more we know that whatever happens, and however much we hate it, however much we have to struggle with it—in some way it’s OK. Am I making practice sound difficult? But practice is difficult. And strangely enough, those who practice like this are the people who hugely enjoy life, like Zorba the Greek. Expecting nothing from life, they can enjoy it. When events happen that most people would call disastrous, they may struggle and fight and fuss, but still they enjoy—it’s OK.”",
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