Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:… — Sogyal Rinpoche
I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state… — Sulak Sivaraksa
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people,… — 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… — Nhat Hanh
So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of… — Nhat Hanh
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance… — Louis Pasteur
Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face… — Krista Tippett
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — Unknown Author
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you… — Benjamin Haydon
For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of… — John Hughlings Jackson
Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like the answer to… — John Hospers
Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering. — David Bosch
O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest… — Symeon the New Theologian
Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no… — Eric Milner-White
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he… — Symeon the New Theologian
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit,… — Mary Antin
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow
One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider… — John C. Wright
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The… — Frank Zappa
In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for… — Dalai Lama
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble… — Roland Barthes
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre… — George A. Sheehan

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