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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.
Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.
A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.
There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.
If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains.
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
Sex is better than talk. Ask anybody in this bar. Talk is what you suffer through so you can get to sex.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.
This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.
What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.
Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.
Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.
I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.