Suffering Quotes - Page 36

• A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Desire, Emotion, Consciousness

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• In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Lifetime, Loses

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• Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, People

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• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Swimming, People

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• People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

  Frederick Lenz

  Tired, People, World

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• Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Age, World

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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• Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Desire, Want

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• To suffer because of anything you see, feel or experience here in the world of moment to moment is a mistake. It is like becoming upset over a frightening dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Mistake, Ignorance

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• Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of creation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Dimensions, Helping

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Winning, Hammers

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• When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Vitality, Doe, Variation

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• It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

  John Henry Newman

  Dream, Sacrifice, Blessing

  John Henry Newman (1874). “Sermons Preached on Various Occasions”, p.178

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• Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

  Margaret of Valois

  Disappointment, Credulity, Men

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, 1899.

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• The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Forever, Wheels

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• We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

  William Shakespeare

  Insanity, Mind, Body

  William Shakespeare (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works”, p.157

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• The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this particular theme. In its discussion are reflected the splitting off from each other of religion, morals and science; the divorce of philosophy from science and of both from the arts of conduct. The evils which we suffer in education, in religion, in the materialism of business and the aloofness of "intellectuals" from life, in the whole separation of knowledge and practice -- all testify to the necessity of seeing mind-body as an integral whole.

  John Dewey

  Art, Philosophy, Divorce

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• It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

  William Penn

  Men, Doing Good, Ill

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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• Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Annoyed, Faults

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Epistolæ Ad Fratrem, I. 1, p. 265-67, 1922.

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• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Pride, Gold

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 253, 2006.

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• All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Meditation, Training

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• What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Grief, Sorrow

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• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  Sallust

  Men, Underestimate

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• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

  Eamon de Valera

  Sympathy, War, People

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• My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

  Rory Bremner

  Medical, Mum, Stills

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