S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.”
“Suffering is the doorway, to the becoming of a saint.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“suffering is the essence of success!!!”
“Suffering is the first step towards sanctification.”
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.
Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god—he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin’s death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you—and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more.
At the same time.
What it is depends on who you are.
But who am I? he wonders. I’ve been running like Dad—like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong?
There’s only one way to find out.”
Source: Traitor
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."
-Vergere”
Source: Traitor
“Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.”
“Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.”
Source: Proust
“Suffering is the negative story you are telling yourself about what is happening now, what has happened in the past or what could potentially happen in the future.”
Source: The Difference Between Pain and Suffering
“Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.”
Source: Native Speaker
“Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.”
“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.”
“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”
Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life
“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
Source: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR
“Suffering is the sorrow of joy.”
“Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.”
“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.”
Source: Tragic Sense of Life
“Suffering is the tuition for the school of wisdom.”
“Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.”
“Suffering is the way for Realization of God.”
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.”
“Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.”
“Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.”
“Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.”
Source: The Implacable Order of Things
“Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.”
“Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.”
Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Suffering is universal.”
Source: The John Green Collection
“Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or it can be a destructive force in our lives if we do not have the faith in the Lord's atoning sacrifice. The purpose of suffering, however, is to build and strengthen us.”
“Suffering is wisdom’s schoolteacher”
Source: Teardrop
“Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.”
“Suffering is worthwhile when you own it.”
Source: Fragrance Of A Dead Rose: A Reminder of Hope
“Suffering is written in the DNA helix. It is fused with a scalpel, and so it cannot be scraped off.”
Source: Fragile Animals
“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”
“Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.”
“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
“Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.”
“Suffering, Khaderbhai once told me, is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.”
Source: Shantaram
“suffering leads to wisdom & wisdom leads to joy...hence suffering leads to joy!”
Excerpt From: Ujjwal Arora. “Zen, Coffee & Potpourri”. Apple Books.”
Source: Zen, Coffee & Potpourri: quotes, one liners & ramblings
“Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.”
“Suffering, loving, and exhibiting compassion along with witnessing the tragic beauty and glory of a passionate life filled with birth and death, comedy and tragedy, all serve to give direction to our subterranean voice of decency and dignity, which effuses naturally from a cascade of affection for humankind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.”
“Suffering makes the soul search spirit.”
“Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.”
Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.
“Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.”
Source: The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”
“Suffering may be a part of your life experience, but it doesn’t need to define how you’ll experience the rest of your life.”
“Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.”
Source: Just Give Me Jesus