Suffering Quote by Robert Wright Download Open image ““understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn’t, by itself, help very much.”” — Robert Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Suffering
“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.” — Rodney Smith Copy Share Image
“Suffering goes beyond pain. It resides in the mind. It results from how we interpret what happens to us, not from the situation itself.” — Robert S. Rosenthal Copy Share Image
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“Never consider another to be the cause of your suffering. Suffering is always the results of one’s own deeds or faults.” — SWAMI SHARNANAND JI Copy Share Image
“In suffering, you've found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life's wonders. You're still trying to believe it every day. One morning… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.” — Shai Tubali Copy Share Image
“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“No matter what choices we make in life, suffering is always a part of what follows.” — Christine Johnson Copy Share Image
“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" asked the Christian theologian Tertullian... Having received the revealed thruth via Christ, "we want no curious disputation."… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“A female in a high-MPI species may seek signs of generosity, trustworthiness, and, especially, an enduring commitment to her in particular.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“And don’t feel like you’re committing a felony-level violation of Buddhist dogma just because you think of yourself as being a self.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The keen sensitivity with which people detect the flaws of their rivals is one of nature's wonders. It takes a Herculean effort to control… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“realizing you’re not king can be the first step toward getting some real power.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“They will, on the one hand, have sex with just about anything that moves, given an easy chance, like males in a low-MPI species.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Like a lawyer, the human brain wants victory, not truth; and, like a lawyer, it is sometimes more admirable for skill than virtue. — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“It may seem seem cynical to see all religion as basically self-serving, and indeed the idea has been put pithily by a famous cynic.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Brewer said the basic idea is to not fight the urge to, say, smoke a cigarette. That doesn’t mean you succumb to the urge… — Robert Wright 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