Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves. — Milarepa
When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail… — Matthieu Ricard
We can always begin again. — Jack Kornfield
On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever. — Arnaud Desjardins
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. — Pema Chodron
When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever. — Jack Kornfield
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie? — Sogyal Rinpoche
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more! — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success — Matthieu Ricard
Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity… — Matthieu Ricard
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts. — Jack Kornfield
We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we… — Pema Chodron
By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is… — Matthieu Ricard
Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in… — Matthieu Ricard
Ours is a society of denial that conditions us to protect ourselves from any direct difficulty and discomfort. We expend enormous energy denying our insecurity,… — Jack Kornfield
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.… — Jack Kornfield
When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.… — Jack Kornfield
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which… — Matthieu Ricard
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. — Arnaud Desjardins
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears… — Jack Kornfield
Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk… — William Shakespeare
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering. — Viktor E. Frankl
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part… — Audrey Hepburn

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