Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Success and suffering will either darken your heart or make you wise, but they won't leave you where you were.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

I would suffer all the humiliation, all the torture, the absolute ostracism and even death, to prevent violence

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Lars Porsena of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrongs no more.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

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