Our Suffering Quotes

70 Our Suffering quotes by 63 unique authors

Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue.… — Sarah Winman
Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves… — Stephen Levine
We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. — Alistair Begg
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It… — Ajahn Chah
We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path. — Jack Kornfield
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not… — Mother Teresa
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When… — Nhat Hanh
Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In… — Judy Tatelbaum
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a… — Neil Abramson
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the… — Sam Harris
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss… — Henri Nouwen
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our… — Ben Okri
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and… — Sharon Salzberg
We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The… — Stephen R. Lawhead
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is… — Keith Ablow
Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful,… — Alberto Manguel
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False… — Paulo Coelho
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions… — Arthur Schopenhauer
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering,… — Stephen Jay Gould
I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering. — Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by… — Siri Hustvedt
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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