Suffering Quotes - Page 30

• We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Evil, Add

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Ignorant, Luck

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, Poverty, Individual

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• Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Complaining, Christ, Dare

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• Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.

  Dan John

  Workout, Thinking, Long

  "Questions and Answers About Lifting. How do I prevent overtraining?". danjohn.net.

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• In order to console a soul in it's sufferings, point out to it all the good it can still do.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Order, Soul, Saint

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• Our misconception is in imagining that our suffering or how intensely or how long we grieve is a measure of how much we loved. In truth, none of us would want another's grief as a testimonial of their love for us. More likely we would want our loved ones to live healthy, fulfilled lives without us.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Long

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• In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.

  Syncletica of Alexandria

  Powerful, Passion, Medicine

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• The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Comforting, Exaltation, Trials

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• If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Temptation, Soul, Merit

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• It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Strong, Struggle, Order

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• On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Thieves, Earth, Way

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• Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• Your tears were collected by the angels and were placed in a golden chalice, and you will find them when you present yourself before God.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Angel, Tears, Golden

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• The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Crush, Weight, Crosses

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• Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Real, Mean, Attachment

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.

  Walden Bello

  Children, Hunger And Poverty, Land

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• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

  David Wolpe

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

  Bodhidharma

  Peace, Doe, Body

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, North Point Press

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• Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Growth, Consciousness

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• Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Past, Dysfunction

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• I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Humanity, Age

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• No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her independence and childlessness. Dorothy reminded herself of what she'd learned during a university course on feminist history (with a strong Marxist slant): spinsters are a threat to patriarchy.

  Tobsha Learner

  Strong, Aunt, Feminist

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• Boredom comes not from reality but from people who are only half alive.

  Thomas Dubay

  Reality, People, Boredom

  Thomas Dubay (2002). “Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within”, p.77, Ignatius Press

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• I have known sorrow - therefore I
  May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
  And know not laughter's worth.
  I have known laughter - therefore I
  May sorrow with you far more tenderly
  Than those who never guess how sad a thing
  Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Laughter, Heart, Laughing

  "Knowledge". Poem by Theodosia Garrison. "Something to Live By". Book by Dorothea S. Kopplin, 2016.

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