Suffering Of Others Quotes

• You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

  Saadi

  Pain, Fitting, Feels

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  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Life, Sympathy

  "Quote, Unquote". Book by Lloyd Cory, p. 197, 1977.

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• The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Essence, Desire

  Dalai Lama (2012). “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World”, p.11, Random House

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• Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Commitment, Responsibility, Compassion

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• He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

  Saadi

  Indifference, Traitor, Indifferent

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• DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. NOTHINGS OTHERS DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU. WHAT OTHERS SAY AND DO IS A PROJECTION OF THEIR OWN REALITY, THEIR OWN DREAM. WHEN YOU ARE IMMUNE TO THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS, YOU WON'T BE THE VICTIM OF NEEDLESS SUFFERING.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  People, Joy, Becoming

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• For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 01, 2012.

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• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Safety, Comfort

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.292, Harper Collins

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• In order to live fully we may need to look deeply at our own suffering and at the suffering of others. In the depths of every wound we have survived is the strength we need to live. The wisdom our wounds can offer us is a place of refuge. Finding this is not for the faint of heart. But then, neither is life.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Heart, Order, Depth

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• It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

  Mary Robinson

  People, Empathy, Suffering

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Reality, Personal Opinions, Confusion

  "The Four Agreements". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

  Edward Abbey

  Acceptance, Heroic, Tragic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Personal Opinions, Development, Four Agreements

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Karma, Agreement

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Suffering, Resignation, Resigning

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

  Will Tuttle

  Compassion, Connections, Ethical

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.35, Lantern Books

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• Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Winning, Numbness, Emptiness

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.256, Anchor

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• Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Eye, Compassion

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• One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

  Susan Ertz

  Bears, Monsters, Indifference

  Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.

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• I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

  Rebecca Lee Crumpler

  Opportunity, African American, Physicians

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• As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Heart, Mean, Flames

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