Quotes About Suffering

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

Faced with the pain of freedom, man begs for his shackles.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

Freedom costs you a great deal.

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

How can a bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?