It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

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