Suffering Quotes - Page 11

• But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 16, 2010

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• Sometimes the people who hurt us the most are people who were hurt more than us.

  Philippos Syrigos

  Hurt, People, Sometimes

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• I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover

  Drake

  Relationship, Happiness, Moving On

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• In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

  Pablo Neruda

  Life, Rain, Fall

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.66, Copper Canyon Press

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• That's the cool thing about having a best friend. They know what your pain feels like already, so you don't have to explain it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Best Friend, Friends, Pain

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

  Michael Ventura

  Beauty, Pain, Giving

  Michael Ventura (1994). “The Zoo where You're Fed to God: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those sins, as having died for those transgressions, and accept the precious truth that it was God's eternal love that laid them all on Jesus, and that nothing is left for you to do but to believe in Jesus, that He saves to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him.

  Octavius Winslow

  Love, Faith, God

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• When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You have to write a new chapter in your story. A relationship can be a sacred thing, but it's going to be difficult. There are going to be challenges. You are going to have pain. But working it through and being resilient is as sacred and meaningful as having a "Hollywood" romance.

  Bruce Feiler

  Meaningful, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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• Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Fear, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 31, 2014

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• Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. That’s a more fruitful way to be.

  Mary Karr

  Girl, Children, Yankee Stadium

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• You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Men, Hardship

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• There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Earth, Sickness, Mercy

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Saint Augustine

  Giving, Needs, Want

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• If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Ancestor, Plans

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

  Alexis Carrel

  Sacrifice, Discipline, Joy

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• Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

  Suzanne Segal

  Taken, Consciousness

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• If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Tears

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• All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Christ, Crosses

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• Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

  Robert Adams

  Beautiful, Thinking, May

  "Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values". Book by Robert Adams, June 15, 2005.

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• Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Loneliness, Thinking, Problem

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• Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Disgrace

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