Quote by Pema Chödrön

“Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering”

— Sam Harris

“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

“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the…

— Oliver Sacks

“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we become conscious…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.”

— Sam Harris

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his…

— Luigi Pirandello

“Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.”

— Rodney Smith

“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in…

— Gabor Maté

“human desires are the main cause of suffering”

— Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change.”

— Mark Manson