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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.
I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life
We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.
A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Unlike the transient days of our lives that constantly come and go, nirvana has always been, is now, and always will be.
As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.
The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.