Suffering Quotes
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
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When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change ...
Senator John Kerry
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
Mahatma Gandhi
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were ever...
Lucy Parsons
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The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia
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The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
Jean Nicholas Grou
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As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that h...
Edward Kennedy
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Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering.
Bhagavad Gita
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux
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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Alexander Nikonov
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Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other
Albert Pike
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Gustav Jung
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But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has alwa...
G.K. Chesterton
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That`s here. That`s home. That`s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and e...
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
Unknown
Subject: Suffering QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it`s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you`re fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
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You don`t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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To become a spectator of one`s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Oscar Wilde
Subject: Suffering Quotes :: Sympathy QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or very foolish imagine otherwise
George Orwell
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How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor leg...
Nelson Mandela
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering m...
Woody Allen
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering m...
Woody Allen
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Personally, I never drink on Oscar nights, as it interferes with my suffering.
Bob Hope
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I`d spent my entire teenage years suffering one unrequited love affair after the other. I was so shy I couldn`t even talk to girls. If I fancied them, I`d follow them home, but I didn`t have the guts to approach them. I was a teenage stalker. The same wen...
Simon Le Bon
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I don`t understand why these Americans have to suffer so much to identify with their characters. Me, I just get up there and act. It`s great fun. There`s no suffering in it.
Marcello Mastroianni
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we`re seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve-to-twenty-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US...
Harrison Ford
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