Suffering Quotes - Page 4

• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

  Cornel West

  Want, Speak, Ifs

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• Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Change, Encouraging

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• To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Learning, Growth

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

  Marcus Thomas

  Reality, Mind, Accepting

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• The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hurt, Insignificant Things

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Light, Heaven

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• I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

  Louise Bogan

  Happiness, Beauty, Encouragement

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

  Plautus

  Hands, Fists, Strikes

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 762-63, Truculentus, IV. 2. 54, 1922.

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• Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

  Hesiod

  Men, Cities, Evil

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• As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.

  Byron Katie

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2002.

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• Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

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  Ram Dass

  Doe, Sandpaper, Incarnation

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.79, Harmony

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• Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Pure

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• Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Strong, Grief

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Funny, Life

  Love and Death, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Humor, World Suffering

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• But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Independent, Men, Convince Us

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

  Judy Collins

  Health, Heartache, Tragedy

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• While most of our suffering is self- inflicted, some is caused by or permitted by God. This sobering reality calls for deep submissiveness, especially when God does not remove the cup from us. In such circumstances, when reminded about the premortal shouting for joy as this life's plan was unfolded (Job 38:7), we can perhaps be pardoned if, in some moments, we wonder what all the shouting was about.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jobs, Reality, Self

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• Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

  Nichiren

  Joy, Facts, Regard

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Stress, Men

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• There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

  Adoniram Judson

  Inspirational, Success, Sacrifice

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• One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Thinking, Offering

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• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Agony, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.261, Vintage

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