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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.
The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.
As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient.
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.
There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.
The relief of suffering is a great good. The curing of illness and disease - these are great human goods. This is the mission of medicine.
I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.
The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.
The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.
Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.
For whatever reason, I don't know why, but Cambodians learned something in their suffering and their struggle that we have lost touch with.
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.
Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.