Healing Quote by Christiaan Barnard Download Open image “Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.” — Christiaan Barnard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Healing Recovery Suffering
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of suffering is… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is. — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are. — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life,… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm river. I… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
