Own Suffering Quotes
29 quotes by 22 authors
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When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go…
— Dean Ornish
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering,…
— Paulo Coelho
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The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage,…
— Peter A. Levine
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Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.
— Dalai Lama
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
— Jane Austen
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Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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If you really want to help, then help others to be more present. Help others to free themselves from the past. Help others to take…
— Leonard Jacobson
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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
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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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You will know that wretched men are the cause of their own suffering, who neither see nor hear the good that is near them, and…
— Pythagoras
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Being hated and hunted and blamed for your own suffering makes people kind of testy, nervous, and on edge, and often fundamentalist and extreme. Bombs…
— Roseanne Barr
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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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
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It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong.…
— Sharon Salzberg
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who Wrote These Own Suffering Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 29 Own Suffering Quotes as follows: