Quotes About Suffering

Without suffering, you cannot get the peace and joy you deserve.

We think that by seeking pleasure we'll avoid suffering. But this doesn't work.

Qué clase de alimentos he estado ingiriendo que han alimentado este sufrimiento?». Cuando empieces a descubrir la clase de alimentos que has estado tomando quizá te eches a llorar.

But to make someone else happy, you have to understand that person's needs, suffering, and desires and not assume you know what will make them happy. Ask, "What would make you happy?" THE RIGHT GIFT In Vietnam there is a fruit that many people love called durian.

The first mindfulness training is important to help us remain free people. Freedom is above all else freedom from our own notions and concepts. If we get caught in our notions and concepts, we can make ourselves suffer and we can also make those we love suffer.

On the whole, I think journalists have been kind about me, but they do make me sound a bit of a dreary cow. There seems to be so much suffering in my life.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Nothing can justify war.

When our TV screens are filled with heartbreaking images of suffering, we have to dig deep inside ourselves in order to keep going.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

I lost my father when I was four, so maybe that was always in the background. Losing my brother kicked it into overdrive. When you get to such an intense place of suffering, you either have the choice to continue suffering or figure a way not to.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

So,high heels weren't a modern invention. I couldn't believe women had been putting up with these torture devices for centuries.

He'd faced death many times. But not like this. Not butchered like an animal, and sold like a piece of flesh in the market.

Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.

Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.

My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.

To accept the environmentalist argument that the suffering of individual animals is inconsequential compared to the ozone layer, we must be willing to admit that the sufferings of minority groups, raped women, battered wives, abused children, people sitting on death row, and our loved ones are small potatoes beneath the hole in the sky. To worry about any of them is, in effect, to miniaturize the big picture to portraits of battered puppy dogs.

For a chicken trapped inside the world of modern food manufacturing, to break out of the shell i sot enter a deeper darkness full of bewildering pain and suffering from birth to death.

Fur ranchers choose the cheapest, not the kindest, kill methods, the main concern being the preservation of the whole coat. Many ranchers use anal electrocution, which fries the animal from the inside out, microwave style. At FurIsDead.com there is footage of animals undergoing anal electrocution, including an unsuccessful attempt repeated on the same animal. We also see a farmer who injects insecticide into the chests of minks, who die convulsing in agony over many minutes.