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Suffering Quotes by Sam Harris
- Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the…
- Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything…
- Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary…
- When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is…
- Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being…
- The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can…
More Suffering Quotes
- 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