Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

Let us realize that we are sinners and have much to explate, while others less culpable than we are suffer more than we do.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

A scientist who is also a human being cannot rest while knowledge which might be used to reduce suffering rests on the shelf.

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