Quotes About Suffering

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.

meaning is one of our greatest needs, and when it's fulfilled, we can endure any type of suffering with dignity.

There's more kinds of pain than just physical pain, you know.

This is a profligate prison for us all, it's a hellish hole we soldiers have been hauled to because they blame us for losing the war in America.

Loveliness, he said, is paid for in the currency of suffering.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Ravikant, Naval: "'Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want' (paraphrased

Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it.

Idiota? Por supuesto [comerse solo una tarta gigante empalagosa sólo por que él la había hecho]. Creo que no se puede ser más idiota. Este es un ejemplo ridículo y a pequeñísima escala de lo que continuamente hace la gente a mayor escala con los trabajos: sufrimiento autoimpuesto que puede evitarse... ¿Qué tarta de queso te estás comiendo?

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

Suffering is a moment of clarity, when you can no longer deny the truth of a situation and are forced into uncomfortable change.

Brian Koppelman mentioned that he considers Haruki Murakami the world's best writer of fiction. To boot, Murakami is an excellent long-distance runner. Here is what Murakami has to say about running, which can be applied to anything: Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Dr. Maté has written several best-selling books, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.

usar el sufrimiento para encontrar claridad. Si se analiza el sufrimiento en lugar de ignorarlo,

Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Buddhists believe that we are the cause of our own suffering. We can't control the fact that bad things are going to happen, but it's how we react to them that really matters, and that we can learn to control.

Inside suffering is the seed of change.

The whole point of addiction is that people are compelled to it by suffering, trauma, unease, and emotional pain. If you want to help people, ask why they are in so much pain that they are driven (there's that word again) to escape from it through ultimately self-harming habits or substances. Then support them in healing the trauma at the core of their addiction, a process that always starts with nonjudgmental curiosity and compassion.

El sufrimiento procede de tres patrones de pensamiento: pérdida, menos, nunca.»

There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.

The reason you're suffering is you're focused on yourself. People tell me, 'I'm not suffering that way. I'm worrying about my kids. My kids are not what they need to be.' No, the reason [these people are] upset is they feel they failed their kids. It's still about them. . . . Suffering comes from three thought patterns: loss, less, never.

Tirando cenizas sobre el Buda (La Liebre de Marzo, 1991), del maestro zen Seung Sahn,