“The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.” MeanTwoLife IsSufferingEnemyCivilizationEssentialsAspectSouthMortalsMannersCodeCharmTwo ThingsNativeSouthernEfficientEfficiencyBishopsCuisineAspects Of LifeCarelessnessMortal Enemies Author:Richard M. Weaver
“Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?” SoulBodySufferingChurchSinEssentialsWorshipDeserveConnectionsCatholicBlindCurrentsPunishmentDumbFaithfulDeafWorldviewBeing FaithfulTruth And Beauty Author:Dana Gioia
“The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.” SoulSometimesSufferingImaginationWalksPayPoetFineEssentialsCapableProductionsDustHeightEcstasySensibilityTemperamentTransportMorbid Author:Myrtle Reed
“Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.” SufferingFallEssentialsElementsFall BackAnnihilationDissolution Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Finding a way to extend forgiveness to ourselves is one of our most essential tasks. Just as others have been caught in suffering, so have we. If we look honestly at our life, we can see the sorrows and pain that have led to our own wrongdoing. In this we can finally extend forgiveness to ourselves; we can hold the pain we have caused in compassion. Without such mercy, we will live our own life in exile.” IfsWayLooksHas BeensPainSufferingCompassionOur LivesSorrowEssentialsFindingsTasksMercyCaughtHonestlyExileWrongdoing Book:Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are Source: Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is - it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence.” PeopleImportantSufferingEssentialsNewsLowsLifetimeAverageIngredientsTraitsWholenessGood News Author:Steve Goodier
“Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such as singing - life's worry, suffering, or conflicts don't exist in that moment. Additionally, singing is about breath work, which is the most essential practice to living a conscious & healthy life.” GivingMindHeartArtWholeMomentsSufferingSpiritualityAttentionPracticeWorryHealthyConflictEssentialsSingingConsciousTasksBreathsPay AttentionThat MomentHeart And MindHealthy Life Author:Jason Mraz
“Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only Begotten Son of God the Father. He received His commission for this essential work from His Father before the world was established. His perfect mortal life devoid of sin, the shedding of His blood, His suffering in the garden and upon the cross, His voluntary death, and the Resurrection of His body from the tomb made possible a full Atonement for people of every generation and time.” PeopleMenWorldMadeBodySufferingFatherJesusChristSinPerfectGenerationsBloodSonEssentialsCapableJesus ChristGardenCrossesMortalsPerformingResurrectionMagnificentTombsAtonementPerfect Man Author:Cecil O. Samuelson
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley
“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.” ThinkingWayMovingSufferingEssentialsPrivilegeShakesCracksCalamityComplacency Author:Pico Iyer
“It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.” PeopleMomentsLawSufferingJusticeQualityEssentialsFrameworkQuality Of LifeRule Of LawInstituteBurma Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.” NeedsSufferingEssentialsOur TimeAquariums Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.” WorldProblemChristianJoySufferingChristLordPathOur LivesStyleThis WorldEssentialsWorshipFilledEmbraceFruitSatisfiedIntenseObedienceDisplayAfflictionSteadfastPsalmsSteadfast Love Author:John Piper
“Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.” IfsFeelsHumansPainSufferingAnimalCompassionToo MuchRegretEssentialsBehaviorGuiltExperimentsBehaveDistinctionVegetarianPretendingVeganAnimal RightsPretensionHumans And AnimalsAnimal BehaviorAnimal Suffering Author:Carl Sagan
“It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a vow: I'll design myself special glasses. They'll block out whether people are fat or thin or beautiful or weird-looking, whether they have pimples or birthmarks or different coloured skin. They'll do everything suffering's done for us, but without the pain. I'm going to wear those glasses for the rest of my life.” PeopleIfsDifferentDoneSeemsPainBeautifulSufferingSpecialDesignEssentialsSkinsGlassesFatsBlockOnly TimeVowPimplesBirthmarks Book:The Night is for Hunting Source: The Night is for Hunting
“ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.” MeanLife IsSufferingDifficultEssentialsGod LoveLove LifeDifficult ThingsLife Means Author:Leo Tolstoy
“The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme.” IfsWellsImportantSufferingHumanityJusticeMy OwnAcceptingViolenceEssentialsGoodnessCapacityStrongerSafetySakeSupremeWell BeingReignCriteriaUntruthTruth And Justice Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.” ThinkingLifeHumansWellsDoeMightLastsSufferingSpaceMinutesGrewEssentialsCapacityDefinedBlissContentmentGood LifeInteriorsHuman Experience Author:Lance Armstrong