Suffering Quotes - Page 35

• Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what we ended up with can't help but suffer in comparison.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Heaven, Helping

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• Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind.

  John F. Kerry

  Kings, Moving, School

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• The amount of poverty and suffering required for a Rockefeller to emerge, and the amount of depravity entailed in the accumulation of a fortune of such magnitude, are left out of the picture, and it is not always possible for the popular forces to expose this clearly.

  Che Guevara

  People, Poverty, Depravity

  "From Algiers, for Marcha : The Cuban Revolution Today". "Marcha" Magazine, www.marxists.org. March 12, 1965.

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• I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Desire

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

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• Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

  Anthony Trollope

  Courage, Should Have, Should

  'The Bertrams' (1859) ch. 27

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• Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

  C. P. Scott

  Giving, Doe, Sacred

  'Manchester Guardian' 5 May 1921

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• The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

  M. Scott Peck

  Acceptance, Denial, Definitions

  M. Scott Peck (1983). “People of the Lie”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Pride, Quality, Noble

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• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

  Max Muller

  Evil, Doers, Next

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.7, Routledge

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• We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Reality, Voice, Joy

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• We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the US who were in the forefront in opposing the ethnic cleansing of Muslim in Bosnia.

  George Soros

  Compassion, Community, Forgiving

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• Don't suffer fools or you'll become one.

  Tim Ferriss

  Work, Fool

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• But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

  Leon Kass

  Real, Emotional, Class

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• The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

  Guru Nanak

  Soul, Sorrow, Widows

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• The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow, in the love of duality, infatuated with Maya, she suffers in pain. She grows old, and her body withers away.

  Guru Nanak

  Pain, Soul, Ignorant

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• Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

  Amy Poehler

  Simple, Painful Experiences, Bed

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't believe for a minute anybody allowed people to suffer because they are African Americans.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Race, People

  "Empty, ruined and desperate" by Julian Borger, Duncan Campbell and Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2005.

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• Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Kyoto, People

  "Fred Thompson on global warming" by Brian Romans, www.wired.com. October 18, 2007.

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• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  Jack White

  Patience, Passion, Long

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• The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.

  Rowan Williams

  Believe, Would Be, Moments

  "Archbishop: 'It should shake our faith in God'" by Martin Bright, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Years, Disease

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Civilization, Two

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• When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

  Kofi Annan

  Risk, Chaos, Killing

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• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Wife, Long, Wish

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• It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had.

  Jack Cade

  Kings, Men, Grace

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