Quotes About Suffering

Anak malang itu hanya bisa merayap di lantai seperti ular. Ia hanya bisa mengeluarkan suara mencicit dari leher dan hidungnya, seperti tikus. Hanya itulah yang dapat dilakukannya. Sejak awal kami sudah melihat bahwa si malang yang sengsara itu, yang dilahirkan sebagai idiot, akan meninggal sebagai idiot pula.

Aiden didn't say anything. He reached out a hand to trace a nail biting into his flesh. "Christ's pain should always be my pain. I should never forget. I never want to. I want to keep reaching out to other people in pain." He sighed. "It doesn't always work that way. I fail more than I succeed." "Why try?" "Because I can't afford to. Look at Him." He stretched out his hands as if beseeching the picture. "He wouldn't give up.

You are filled with anguish For the suffering of others. And no one's grief Has ever passed you by. You are relentless Only to yourself, Forever cold and pitiless. But if only you could look upon Your own sadness from a distance, Just once with a loving soul— Oh, how you would pity yourself. How sadly you would weep. —Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917

Happy are these who lose imagination: They have enough to carry with ammunition. Their spirit drags no pack, Their old wounds save with cold cannot more ache. Having seen all things red, Their eyes are rid Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever. And terror's first constriction over, Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle Now long since ironed, Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.

Never mind,' says the old woman. 'It won't hurt for long. You'll go crazy, or they'll hang you. Easy as that, really.

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

We have to make peace and reduce the suffering in ourselves first, because we represent the world. Peace, love, and happiness must always begin here, with ourselves.

We have to make peace and reduce the suffering in ourselves first, because we represent the world. Peace, love, and happiness must always begin here, with ourselves. There is suffering, fear, and anger inside of us, and when we take care of it, we are taking care of the world. . . . So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being Fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being Generous. Being compassionate. Thich Nhat Hanh

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

R?bdarea este un pom cu r?d?cini amare, dar cu fructe dulci.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. But all creativeness in the realm of the spirit as well as every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul, and the cause of the suffering is spiritual stagnation, or psychic sterility.

There's no coming to consciousness without pain.

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Pain and fear are necessary and valuable components of life. Suffering and worry are destructive and unnecessary components of life.

The way circus elephants are trained demonstrates this dynamic well: When young, they are attached by heavy chains to large stakes driven deep into the ground. They pull and yank and strain and struggle, but the

Frank Sulloway, author of Born to Rebel, says that "Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children

All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is. —BUDDHA

May I be mindful both making and keeping commitments that they be springboards to liberation, instead of suffering, for all sentient beings.

let go of expectations, for expectations lead to suffering.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

I don't really care. I shouldn't have to care. I shouldn't have to work this hard. I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

There's a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You'd better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security "bullet