All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Suffering perfects the soul.
Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation.
Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.
I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.
It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other guys like that. What they were doing is depicting suffering. And that's exactly what a demon is, he's pretending that he isn't. So he can get more people down there. You know, misery loves company, that's the whole thing. So that's basically the pitch that I'm working on.
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy. And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.