We Suffer Quotes

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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. — Aesop
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we… — Daniel J. Boorstin
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no… — Emile M. Cioran
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own… — Mario Puzo
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered. — Oswald Chambers
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed. — Thomas a Kempis
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the… — Edward George, Baron George
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca the Elder
Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside. — George Robinson
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
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is… — Byron Katie
We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. — H. L. Mencken
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught… — Hermann Hesse
We suffer one of two things. Either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. You've got to choose discipline, versus regret, because discipline… — Jim Rohn
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs… — Eugene Ionesco
Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. — Robert McKee
If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap… — Thomas Jefferson
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more,… — Shakti Gawain

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