Humans Quote by Pankaj Mishra Download Open image “Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.” — Pankaj Mishra ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Made Suffering
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is. — Suzanne Segal Copy Share Image
Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else. — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Suffering only gets worse when we try to run from it rather than facing it. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is. — Marcus Thomas Copy Share Image
Suffering will always be apart of the human condition. You can neglect it, you can shut it down. But when things get out of… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering. — Alphonse Daudet 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 always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself,… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish. — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding. — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.” — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Voltaire was soon turned, with Catherine’s encouragement, into a patron saint for the secular Russian aristocracy. Voltairianism, vaguely signifying rationalism, scepticism and reformism, became… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Today, the belief in progress, necessary for life in a Godless universe, can no longer be sustained, except, perhaps, in the Silicon Valley mansions… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside. — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as particularly earnest. I have long bouts of cynicism and skepticism. So much of my early life was full… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.” — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
