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Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.
The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.
A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.
I'm no politician but I do feel that a lot of damage was done because of misguided principals and America is still suffering from it.
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.
The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.
Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.
I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?
The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.
Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.
One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.
We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.
I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.
Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
People ask why God allows suffering. You could just as well ask the Minister of Transport why he allows accidents on Britain's roads.
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.
No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.
Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.
Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.
I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.