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Suffer Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the…
- You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful.…
- You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
- The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us.…
- We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we don't want it…
- We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out…
- Survival means the survival of human kind as a whole, not just a part of it. If the South cannot survive, then the North is…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- 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…
- A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less.…
- When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit…
- People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
- Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are…
- When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment;…
- If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
- The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an…
- When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try…
- We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of…
- To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus…
- If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we don't have to…
- Even though we are primarily responsible for our own anger, we believe naively that if we can say something or do something to punish the…
More Suffer Quotes
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer. — Brigitte Bardot
- When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer. — Kristen Bell
- We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living.… — Pope Benedict XVI
- A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for… — Arnold Bennett
- No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma -… — Alfred Adler
- For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless. — Wendell Berry
- A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the… — Annie Besant