Suffering Quotes - Page 8

• The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

  Lee Strobel

  Painful Experiences, Challenges, Soul

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Would Be, Use

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• It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

  Philip Roth

  Punishment

  Philip Roth (2007). “Exit Ghost”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

  Jim Dine

  Blood, Done, Able

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• Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?

  Nichiren

  Law, Joy, Facts

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• I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Views, Creating

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• Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

  Ala Bashir

  People, Everyday, Dying

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• 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!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Hands, Earth, Holy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

  Victor Hugo

  Height, Ifs

  'Contemplations' (1856) bk. 5, no. 26 'Les Malheureux'

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• As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Friends, Karma, Pride

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• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Perfect, Worry

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• If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don’t have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

  Byron Katie

  Moving, Fire, Hands

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• Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Idlers, Leisure, Action

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• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Divine Wisdom, Soul

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• It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Pain, Not Giving Up

  Attributed to Emil Zatopek in "Citius, Altius, Fortius" ("Swifter, Higher, Stronger"), an unsigned article from Khaleej Times, August 8, 2008.

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• Without suffering, there'd be no compassion.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, Missing You, Compassion

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• Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Sick, Mind

  "Hissy fit now" by Laura Denham, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Depth, Height, Plunge

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.503, Xist Publishing

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• Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

  Jose Marti

  Spiritual, Real, Men

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• It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Men

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• The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Courage, Fate

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• The reward of suffering is experience

  Aeschylus

  Failure, Adversity, Experience

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• It is the lot of man to suffer.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

  Pope Francis

  People, Lack Of Love, Today

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Spiritual, Peace

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