S Quotes
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“Suffering is no guarantee of empathy and the decent behavior it engenders. When people emerge from pain and oppression, they have two options: they can use their anger over their suffering to legitimize their oppression of others; or they can use the memory of their pain to empathize with others. Suffering ennobles only those who want to be ennobled by it.”
Source: The Rational Bible: Exodus
“Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.”
Source: TACTICAL EXERCISE
“Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.”
“Suffering is not a contest it doesn't matter who it is, or what form the suffering comes in everyone has their own trials and tribulations, but for arguments sake let's say you did suffer more than everyone else is that something to be proud of? Congratulations you have a life nobody wants, and you're the world's biggest victim.”
“Suffering is not a failure of life, suffering is a sign of life.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Suffering is not a prerequisite for happiness.”
“Suffering is not an achievement but your results from suffering and hard work is”
“Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.”
“Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.”
“Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living
“Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.”
Source: Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul
“Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you'll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You'll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.”
“Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”
Source: The Quiet American
“Suffering is not something to overcome, it is something to be heeded (19)”
Source: Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us
“Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.”
Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers
“Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.”
“Suffering is one of life's great teachers.”
“Suffering is one very long moment.”
Source: De Profundis
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.”
Source: De Profundis
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.”
Source: De Profundis and Other Writings
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.”
Source: Works: Edited with an Introduction
“Suffering is only for a short time as it seems right for crucifixion of the fleshy soul.”
“Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.”
Source: The Circle
“Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.”
“Suffering is our best teacher because it
hangs onto us and keeps us in its grip
until we have learnt that particular
lesson. Only then does suffering let go. If
we haven’t learnt our lesson, we can be
quite sure that the same lesson is going
to come again, because life is nothing but
an adult education class, If we don’t pass
in any of the subjects, we just have to sit
the examination again. Whatever lesson
we have missed, we will get it again. That
is why we find ourselves reacting to
similar situations in similar ways many
times.”
“Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.”
“Suffering is our capital, our natural resource. Not oil or gas – but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently”
Source: On the Battle Lost
“Suffering is our [Russians'] capital. Not oil or gas--but suffering. It is the only thing we are able to produce consistently....But great books are piled at our feet.
--from the Nobel Prize lecture (2015)”
“Suffering is overated.”
“Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.”
“Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.”
“Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.”
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“Suffering is part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.”
Source: The Passenger
“Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.”
Source: Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham
“Suffering is part of this life only until one realizes that it does not need to be, at that point all suffering ends.”
“Suffering is people not caring about your work. Pain is you not caring about work.”
Source: The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny
“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.”
“Suffering is power.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.”
“Suffering is root of salvation.”
“Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his grace to keep on walking, our lives become messages of hope to the world and to the church.”
Source: Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times
“Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.”
“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”
“Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.”
“Suffering is the benediction, which God pours upon his beloved children to whom He would reveal the meaning of His infinite mercy – reveal Himself, His wisdom and His love.”
“Suffering is the common lot of man.”
Source: Remembrance
“Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of its existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering - unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.”
Source: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Suffering is the decay of the heart, all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all, as the pauper is the rudiment of a city, knowing something of the city, which the city, for its own destiny, wants to forget. So the lover must got against nature to find love.”
Source: Nightwood