Suffering Quote by Miriam Greenspan Download Open image ““We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it”” — Miriam Greenspan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suffering
“strengthening habitual patterns of suffering. We begin to see this more and more clearly, and we begin to realize that we can do something… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.” — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The fact is, whenever you resist the pain that’s there, your suffering increases.” — Elisha Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Suffering is not avoided, and is even sought for, simply because it is the hardest thing for man to deal with, and the greatest… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.” — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.” — Rodney Smith Copy Share Image
“Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.” — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“When we psychologize human suffering, we narrow our focus to the individual—perhaps in order to be less overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of human… — Miriam Greenspan Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you… — Assia Petricelli Copy Share Image
Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
