To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.
I suffer every moment of every day that I am not with my son. All I want is to be reunited with my son.
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.
Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
Those who are content suffer no disgrace.
Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. . . Will there also be faith?
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?
Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.
In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.
The Continent will not suffer England to be the workshop of the world.
Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we'd never learn anything.
I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends. . . one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body.
Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.