Suffering Quotes - Page 30

• It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

  Louise Hay

  Self, Hatred, Guilt

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Priorities

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.

  Julian Baggini

  Religious, Believe, World

  "The Thought Police Brief Answers to Big Questions: Hoddle Has Gone, but the Question of Evil Remains". www.independent.co.uk. February 07, 1999.

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• There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

  Jonathan Ames

  Young Writers, Young, Comparison

  Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

  Andrew Coyle Bradley

  Character, Opposites, Suffering And Death

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• Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Children, Father

  Song: Happy Home

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• So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. "How could God do this to me?" is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.

  John Gerstner

  Running, Pain, Grief

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• Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

  Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

  World, Awakening, Realizing

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• The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

  Red Cloud

  Ignorant, World, Spirit

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• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Believe, Sexuality, Misuse

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• When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Made, Star Wars Movie, New Hope

  Ed Rodley, Boston Museum of Science, Anthony Daniels (2005). “Star wars: where science meets imagination”, Natl Geographic Society

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• Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Powerful, Thinking, Cynical

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• When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  When You Love Someone, Want, Love Someone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Opportunity, Iran

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• Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Horizon, Responsible

  "Sylvia Earle Talks Gulf Oil Spill Effects In Exclusive Interview". Interview with Joanna Zelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 13, 2011.

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• Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Race, Enormous

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• I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

  Ray Davies

  Art, Pain, Media

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• We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Pain, Today, Faces

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• Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

  Bob Dylan

  Family, Guilt, Guides

  Song: Ballad in Plain D, Album: Another Side of Bob Dylan, 1964

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• Looking to the material world for the satisfaction of our inner needs is the source of much fear. All fear is, in essence, fear of the future. We are afraid of things that have not yet happened, but which if they did might bring us pain, suffering, or some other discomfort - or stand in the way of some future contentment. And we are afraid that circumstances that are already causing us displeasure may continue in the future.

  Russell Peters

  Pain, Essence, Contentment

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• If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

  Ellie Kemper

  Choices, Certain, Plans

  "Ellie Kemper's Wedding Season DOs and DON'Ts". www.glamour.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

  Danny Huston

  Father, Long, Cost

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

  Neil Diamond

  Lying, Doubt, No Fear

  Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996

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