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When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!
We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.
Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end . . . and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!
We will pursue them until they lose their nerves... Now that they have indulged in their evil and crimes, they will suffer a defeat.
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
Often we don't change because we're afraid of what might happen. We cling to what we recognize, even if we are steeped in suffering.
I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.