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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Peace, Hate, War

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• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Coward

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and DESIRE. If endured with the right attitude and accompanied by righteous desires, suffering and deprivation can be the agency of great growth in our spirits.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Attitude, Mean, Adversity

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• You will suffer, be tempted, and make mistakes. You will learn for yourself what every heroine has learned: through overcoming challenges come growth and strength. It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Mistake, Adversity, Challenges

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• Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Climbing, Challenges

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• We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

  Hirohito

  Military, Unendurable, Endure

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• This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspiration, Emotional, Problem

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.99, Zondervan

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• We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Different, Three

  Viktor E. Frankl (1964). “Man S Search For Meaning”, p.101, Ratna Sagar

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• Better to suffer than to die.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Dies

  1668 Fables, pt.1, no.16, 'La mort et le bu" cheron'.

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• Only people who want to be somewhere, somebody, have to suffer the sadness of failure. But a person who never wants to be anybody, never wants to be anywhere else, cannot suffer the sadness of failure - he is always successful, just like me.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Successful, People

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• Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

  John Calvin

  Lord, Inevitable, Adopted

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