Cause Suffering Quotes
17 quotes by 13 authors
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Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm…
— Dalai Lama
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People think of animals as if they were vegetables, and that is not right. We have to change the way people think about animals. I…
— Dalai Lama
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we…
— Ajahn Chah
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well,…
— Ajahn Chah
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There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These…
— Alfred Capus
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Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
— Anthony Marra
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By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering…
— Frederick Lenz
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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
— Lafcadio Hearn
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Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
— Camille Claudel
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God…
— Philip Yancey
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All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves…
— Sharon Salzberg
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All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering…
— Vera Brittain
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In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.
— Mechai Viravaidya
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Everything has a beginning and an end, pain and does pleasure. Dont anticipate and dont regret, and there will be no pain. It is memory…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Who Wrote These Cause Suffering Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 17 Cause Suffering Quotes as follows: