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Quotes About Suffering

We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.
~ Miguel Ruiz
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering. Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny. To suffer, or to love and be happy. To live in hell, or to live in heaven. My choice is to live in heaven. What is yours?
~ Miguel Ruiz
The truth leads us to our authenticity, to happiness. Lies lead us to limitations in our lives, to suffering and drama. Whoever believes in truth, lives in heaven. Whoever believes in lies, sooner or later lives in hell.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Hay una vieja expresión que dice: «A la miseria le gusta estar acompañada», y la gente que sufre en el infierno no quiere estar sola.
~ Miguel Ruiz
We get numb together, we start talking about our suffering, and we understand each other very well. We even start to enjoy it. We understand each other perfectly because we vibrate in the same frequency. We are both being self-destructive. Then I hurt you, you hurt me — a perfect relationship in hell.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
~ Miguel Ruiz
La felicidad, igual que el sufrimiento, es una elección.
~ Miguel Ruiz
The Voice of Knowledge by don Miguel Ruiz* Ruiz transforms complex human issues into simple common sense. He tells us that all of our emotional suffering is because we believe in lies — mainly about ourselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If we compare the dream of human society with the description of hell that religions all around the world have promulgated, we find they are exactly the same. Religions say that hell is a place of punishment, a place of fear, pain, and suffering, a place where the fire burns you. Fire is generated by emotions that come from fear. Whenever we feel the emotions of anger, jealousy, envy, or hate, we experience a fire burning within us. We are living in a dream of hell.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a
~ Miguel Ruiz
Nu exist? oameni r?i pe lume, exist? doar oameni neferici?i.
~ Mihail Bulgakov
A hideg és a félelem állandóan útitársamul szegÅ'dött, valósággal megtébolyított.
~ Mihail Bulgakov
I'm not going to heal. Not if healing means shrugging your shoulders and saying 'Life goes on'. Life doesn't go on.
~ Mike Carey
I was feeling as though my eyeballs had been scooped out, roughly polished with a sanding wheel, and then shoved back more or less into their right places. My head was full of gray cheese instead of brains.
~ Mike Carey
But you can't save people from the world. There's nowhere else to take them
~ Mike Carey
Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
But why don't you take him with you into the light? He does not deserve the light, he deserves peace
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Tutto passa. Passano le sofferenze e i dolori, passano il sangue, la fame, la pestilenza. La spada sparirà, le stelle invece resteranno, e ci saranno, le stelle, anche quando dalla terra saranno scomparse le ombre persino dei nostri corpi e delle nostre opere. Non c'è uomo che non lo sappia. Ma perché allora non vogliamo rivolgere lo sguardo alle stelle? Perché?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Pogroms were whipped up every minute and people were murdered daily, especially Jews of course.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Dobrze, ju? dobrze – powiedzia? mistrz, roze?mia? si? i doda?: - Oczywi?cie, ludzie ograbieni ze wszystkiego jak my oboje szukaj? ocalenia u si? nadprzyrodzonych.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
How can we help Mikhail Alexandrovich? By staying hungry? But us, you know, we're alive!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Of course, when people have been robbed of everything, like you and me, they seek salvation from other-worldly powers!
~ Mikhail Bulgakov