Back from the brink quotes Quote by The Dhammapada

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow…

— James Kingsland

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

— Gautama Buddha

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow…

— Gautama Buddha

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

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

— Suzanne Segal

“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

Suffering is an illusion.

— Gautama Buddha

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts.…

— Gautama Buddha

“Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)”

— Donald Rothberg

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

— Ram Dass

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

— Brad Warner