“But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.” IfsMenImportantMatterSufferingMankindCrossesIndependentRuinsConvinceExaminationSympatheticCompulsoryConvince Us Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.” PersonsTwoRememberSufferingPassionWalksResultsPovertyFirePersonalityExperienceIndependentSafetyAttractionIncomeBurnedImmunity Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
“Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.” ShouldMotivationalSufferingIndividualCompanyIndustryIndependentSakeEmployeeStabilityDogmaCompetenceContinuity Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it's like a mafia family's law. It's independent to the law this nation openly applies. It's the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.” GivingYearsTwoLawSufferingNationsPartyCrimeDesignToughIndependentPrisonChinaInternalsCommunistMafiaJudicialCommunist PartyJudicial System Author:Ai Weiwei
“We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.” MenNeedsChildrenSufferingTeachIndependentIncomeTortureEmpoweringEmpowering Women Author:Waris Dirie
“I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingAgeSufferingCultureDignityShameIndependentInvisibleEnjoymentSenior Author:Leeza Gibbons
“Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.” YearsSufferingCultureSocialCenturyCivilizationYears AgoIndependentPatternsComparisonContinentsIndigenousIndigenous Culture Author:Haile Selassie
“I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.” PeopleHas BeensHelpingSufferingRealizingIndependentOneselfCirclesThrustArrivingBe Here Now Author:Ram Dass