S Quotes
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“Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.”
“Suffering is a part of real life lesson.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.”
“Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.”
Source: Wisdom for the New Millennium
“Suffering is a saving grace.”
“Suffering is a skill that needs to be learned the hard way.”
Source: The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion
“Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.”
“Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.”
“Suffering is always an invitation
to awareness
and compassion
and action.”
“Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.”
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”
Source: The James Allen Companion
“Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Suffering is an existential part of human life. What matters is for you to know what is important to you.”
“Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.”
“Suffering is an illusion.”
“Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?”
“Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.”
“suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.”
Source: Sixpence in Her Shoe
“Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.”
“Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.”
Source: The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon
“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”
Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950
“Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life”
“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”
“Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.”
“Suffering is easier to endure when shared.”
Source: Rot & Ruin
“Suffering is easy, once you have a heart; it becomes unbearable once it is broken.”
“Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.”
“Suffering is essential to us, essential to our spiritual growth. A person who does not suffer might as well be dead, which is what Buddhism aspires to ... suffering is an indispensable part of life, without which we could never have joy. Who would turn their back on joy except a hater of life itself?”
Source: The False Awakeners: Illusory Enlightenment
“Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.”
“Suffering is evolutionary and is one with our sense of purpose. When suffering is denied, life begins to seem senseless. It loses meaning. We feel useless. We find ourselves feeling lost, in a soulless kind of futility, smothered beneath the added oppression of the energy of denial. All the time, the bottle neck of passion is building up, creating pressure. We long for unconditional release.”
Source: Nondual Passion: A Quality of Consciousness in Nondual Therapy
“Suffering is exacerbated by avoidance. The body carries with it any undigested pain. Our attempts at self-protection cause us to live in a small, dark, cramped corner of our lives. We accept a limited perspective of the situation and a restricted view of ourselves. We cling to what is familiar simply in order to reassert control, thinking we can fend off what we fear will be intolerable. When we push back, hoping to get rid of a difficult experience, we are actually encapsulating it. In short, what we resist persists.”
Source: The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
“Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.”
Source: Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God
“Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.”
Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“Suffering is holy ground to seek the divine.”
“Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.”
“Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.”
“Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.”
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“Suffering is inevitable because desires are absolute. One cannot eradicate all of his desires as the process of eliminating desires itself involves reason as another desire.”
“Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.”
Source: The Human Script
“Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.”
Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence
“Suffering is just life's way of asking, How much do you really want this?”
“Suffering is life.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Suffering is living. Sometimes it is joyful; sometimes it is painful. It depends on your perception. You will not suffer when you are unconscious or dead.”
“Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the opportunity for growth. People should rejoice in suffering, strange as it sounds, for this is a sign of the availability of energy to transform their characters.”
“Suffering is neccesary for salvation.”
“Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”
Source: Stillness Speaks