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“More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.”

Men Life Mind Suffering Order Found Wise Rational Insane Reasonable

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the suffering and self-sacrifice which they endured in carrying out those deeds. If their actions were free of suffering or sacrifice, then are they truly deserving of gratitude?”

Ifs Life Feels Self Action Suffering Compassion Sacrifice Gratitude Deeds Impossibility Deserving Self Sacrifice

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.”

“When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.”

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.”

Ifs Men Life Years Mind Doe Lasts Life Is Suffering Next Known Path Week Distance Last Year Nevertheless Next Year Orbit Next Week Velocity Recurrence Periodicity

Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection

“Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.”

Life Joy Suffering Effort Fellowship

Book:Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed

Source: Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed

“Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.”

Life States Moments Joy Suffering Values Enjoy Existence Sun Ocean Remains Shining Depth Calm Wave Storm Surface Rage Over It Enjoy Life

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”

People Life Inspirational Suffering Change Views Caught Release

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.”

Thinking Life Inspirational Mind Looks Persons Home Body Beautiful Suffering Change Emotion Perception Mindfulness Breathe Your Body Unhappy Unkind

Author:Nhat Hanh

“As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.”

World Way Life Kind Children Made Age Life Is Suffering Jesus Effort Learning Offers Filled Insight Siddhartha

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition