Quotes of: Human-suffering Keyword

Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected wit...

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint of sin... Among the gentlest and sweetest souls are sometimes found those who suffer much. A person that accepts his lot...

Joseph F. Merrill

Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind. [...] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the host...

The True Meaning of Smekday

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience.

Existential Psychology East-West

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

The Gargoyle

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

The Prince and the Pauper

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Nhat Hanh

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

Carl Paladino

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Its better you make suffer yourself instead of making others to suffer , it's justified.

Jitendra Anne

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

In a sense I want the same thing that my grandfather wanted, that people should not suffer. Yet I am not like him. He remade himself so that he could live for eternity. Yet he never defeated the eternal enemy - no, not the cyborgs or the robots. The ...

The Eternal Enemy

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief. Finally somebody told the truth. Suffering is part of life, and we don’t have to feel it’s happening because we personal...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Let the man who has suffered ask it -- not the man who has travelled.

Bulgarian

Look not at thieves eating meat, but look at them suffering punishment.

Chinese

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

The Complete Essays

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...

A Familiar Rain

If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.

Gorgias

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation