S Quotes
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“Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.”
“Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.”
“Suffering awakens us. Insight ignites resolve. Will empowers action. Action sculpts change. We are the architects of our own metamorphosis.”
“Suffering awakes the spiritual soul of the spirit.”
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
“Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you. The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.”
“Suffering belongs to no language.”
Source: The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems
“Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.”
“Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. And in the end, faith will not disappoint. Faith, hope, and dreams will prevail... Our time has come. Our time has come. Our time has come.”
“Suffering breeds poetry.”
Source: The Meaning Of Life Is To Fight: A Collection of Poems
“Suffering brings experience.”
“Suffering brings me so close to God.”
Source: Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
“Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.”
“Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!”
“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,’ Suzuki tells Cage.’ The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”
Source: Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. “We are too ego-centered,” Suzuki tells Cage. “The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away.”
Adolescent love gives us the first chance to break the shell. Sexual love makes the ego lose itself in the object it loves. “When the ego-shell is broken and the ‘other’ is taken into its own body, we can say that the ego has denied itself or that the ego has taken its first steps towards the infinite.…The religious consciousness is now fully awakened, and all the possible ways of escaping from the struggle or bringing it to an end are most earnestly sought in every direction. Books are read, lectures are attended, sermons are greedily taken in, and various religious exercises or disciplines are tried.”
Suzuki says that sexual love is a vehicle of liberation? A crack in the ego shell? A path to the infinite?
At this point, if I were Cage, I would buy the book and take it home.”
“Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.”
Source: In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
“Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.”
“Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life.”
“Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.”
Source: Death and the Life After
“Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.”
“Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)”
Source: The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
“Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.”
“Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.”
“Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.”
“Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.”
“Suffering comes to us as an interrogator. It asks, “Who are you?”
Source: The Journey: Spiritual Growth in Galatians and Philippians
“Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”
Source: Stillness Speaks
“Suffering crucifies sin.”
“Suffering deliberately embraced cannot free the soul totally from sin unless the soul is also tried in the fire of suffering that comes unchosen. For the soul is like a sword: if it does not go 'through fire and water' (Ps. 66:12. LXX) - that is, through suffering deliberately embraced and suffering that comes unchosen - it cannot but be shattered by the blows of fortune.”
“Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.”
“Suffering did not make them more than men; it made them less than men”
Source: The Summing Up
“Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.”
“Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.”
“Suffering does not discriminate.”
Source: From This Moment On
“Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.”
“Suffering doesn’t concern itself with the scale of other sufferings. It has no community sense. It isn’t relative, is it.”
Source: Money
“Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?”
“Suffering drives progress.- The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action.
With craving, we are dissatisfied but driven. Without craving, we are satisfied but lack ambition.”
Source: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine society. The examination of hatred is a terrible thing.”
Suffering begets rage, and while the prosperous turn a blind eye, or nod off which is always the same thing as shutting your eyes, the hate of the unprosperous masses has hits torch lit by some malcontent or warped mind dreaming away in a corner, somewhere, and it begins to examine society. Examination by hate is a terrible thing.”
“Suffering engenders wrath; and while the prosperous classes blind themselves, or fall asleep, which also is to close the eyes, the hatred of the unfortunate classes lights its torch at some fretful or ill-formed mind which is dreaming in a corner, and begins to examine society. Examination by hatred, a terrible thing.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Suffering erased was the same as no suffering at all.”
Source: Thunderhead
“Suffering follows the lack of wisdom.”
“Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.”
“Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.”