Suffering Quotes
6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors
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Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made…
— Thomas a Kempis
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of…
— Aldous Huxley
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We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their…
— Gary Bettman
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Goaltending is a suffering position. Your equipment protects you from injury, but not from pain, every time you go out there. And if you allow…
— Kevin Constantine
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Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true,…
— Winston Churchill
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Joy is love exalted; peace is love in response; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering.…
— Buddhadasa
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Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
— Dan Morgenstern
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Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
— George Robinson
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If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
— Leon Brown
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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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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face…
— Ajahn Chah
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Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our…
— Cesar Chavez
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly…
— Joseph Epstein
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The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a…
— Alistair Cooke
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My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do…
— Demi Lovato
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I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
— Saint Augustine
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As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what…
— Mother Teresa
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Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one,…
— Frederick Buechner
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people…
— Morrie Schwartz
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If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.
— Dalai Lama
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