Suffering Quotes - Page 39

• Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

  Nhat Hanh

  Understanding, Lack Of Understanding

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• The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.

  Michael Jackson

  Horse, Love Is, Tree

  Michael Jackson (2004). “In Sierra Leone”, p.140, Duke University Press

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• He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

  William Blake

  Knows

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.167, Routledge

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• I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

  Walt Whitman

  Men, He Man

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.137, Psychology Press

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• If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.

  Victor Hugo

  Ifs

  Contemplations 'Les Malheureux'

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• If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

  Robert De Niro

  Ifs

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• The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Sound, Miles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• He who is attached to things will suffer much.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching Leadership

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sorrow, Ends

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.

  Aeschylus

  Blow, Done, Deeds

  "The Libation Bearers". Play by Aeschylus,

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• Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.

  Amit Goswami

  Inspirational, Thinking, Wind

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• Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, People, Definitions

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• Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Mean, Love Is

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• You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Thinking

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• You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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• If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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• Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me and if I don't complete my task, if I don't do this perfectly, then what about them? They'll suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Giving Up, Yoga

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• Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Nice, Yoga

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• The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Giving

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• Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Christ

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• To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Journey, Enlightenment

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• If you suffer in love, if you have problems in love, it's because you don't have enough humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Problem

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• You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

  George Washington Carver

  Years, Land, Tears

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• God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Grief, Sick, Dying

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• Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

  Greg Jackson

  Jobs, Mma, Training

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