Suffering Quotes - Page 9

• A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

  Billy Graham

  Doe, Needs, Lectures

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015

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• Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Loss, Going Away

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through. In order to do this, the attitude toward pain has to change. This happens when we accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Pain, Attitude

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• It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Pain, Attitude

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• How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Heaven, Earth

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• The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

  Simone Weil

  Moving, Cutting, Use

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.28, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  Susan Sontag

  Aggravation, World Suffering, Degrade

  "AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.

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• Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Moving, Roots, Healthy

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.277, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• "Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.

  Janet Morris

  Dream, Home, Victory

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• Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Joy, Guides

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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• Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

  E. W. Howe

  Injury, Remedy

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• There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

  Don Martin

  Comedy

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• When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Suffering Of Others, Personal Opinions, Development

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wicked, Injustice, Annoying

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.814, Routledge

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• Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Work, Heart, Chastisement

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.831, Delphi Classics

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• We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1309, Xist Publishing

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• About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

  W. H. Auden

  Sorrow, Window, Eating

  "Musee des Beaux Arts" l. 1 (1940)

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• Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.

  Jewel

  Thinking, Miracle

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• About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

  W. H. Auden

  Masters

  "Musee des Beaux Arts" l. 1 (1940)

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• There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

  Pope Francis

  Overcoming, Charity, May

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 20, 2014.

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• If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Thank You, God, World Suffering

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Laughter, Shoes

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

  Peter Singer

  Encouragement, Nature, Animal

  "Peter Singer" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Compassion, Deeds, Tongue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1872). “A Selection from the Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.205

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• You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Pain, Understanding

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