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Suffering Quotes by Alain de Botton
- One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what…
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
- Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
- Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
- We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped…
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- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila