Avoid Suffering Quotes

27 quotes by 14 authors

The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a… — Dalai Lama
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that… — Dalai Lama
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to… — Dalai Lama
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to… — Elisabeth Elliot
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid… — Dalai Lama
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
All living beings have experience of pleasure and pain, and we are among them. What makes human beings different is that we have a powerful… — Dalai Lama
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is… — William Arthur Ward
The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton
Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being… — Sogyal Rinpoche
We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am… — Dalai Lama
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are… — Dalai Lama
All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way… — Dalai Lama
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer;… — Woody Allen
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,… — Leo Buscaglia
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your… — Thomas Merton
Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity… — Adam Michnik
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer… — Thomas Merton

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