Suffering Quotes - Page 25

• If we base our belief systems on the humble assumption that the complexities of the world are ontologically beyond our understanding, then maybe our belief systems will make more sense and end up causing less suffering.

  Moby

  Humble, Understanding, World

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• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Country, Oil, People

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• Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Men, Evil, Wish

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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Attitude, Gnosticism, Enlightenment

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• The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

  David Plouffe

  Teacher, Jobs, Games

  "White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

  Jason Patric

  Interesting

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• I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, School, Average

  "Big Bang Theory: The Jim Parsons Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. September 23, 2010.

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• I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Commit, Percent, Ifs

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• You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

  Christina Romer

  People, Needs, Care

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• What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

  Guy Ritchie

  Kids, Thinking, Larger Than Life

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• I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Mother, Grieving, Goes On

  "How Cheryl Strayed Found Her Path". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2012.

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• It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Suffering Of Others, Imagination, Moral

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• Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

  Compay Segundo

  Animal, Men, Culture

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• We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

  David Satcher

  Country, Children, Believe

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• There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Reality, Trying

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• So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

  Lee Strobel

  Self, People, Centeredness

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• When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Love You, Care

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• It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Safety, Enlightenment

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Some people get tired of continual perception of the finite universe. They feel the perception of the universe over and over in variant forms is kind of an unhappy condition, because it doesn't last.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Tired, Buddhism

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• Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism

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• Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Attention

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• Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Pain, Buddhism

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• Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

  Jo Stafford

  Song, Mercy, Performers

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• There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.

  Paullina Simons

  Book, Heart, Thinking

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