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“How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.”

Way Years Suffering Work Simple Events Punishment Fatigue Disagreeable Simple Truths Sufferings In Life

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.”

Suffering Simple Forget Bed Painful Simple Truths Painful Experiences

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“As to our friend , I pray God to bestow upon him a simplicity that shall give him peace . Happy are they indeed who can bear their sufferings in the enjoyment of this simple peace and perfect acquiesence in the will of God.”

Giving Suffering Simple Perfect Bears Praying Simplicity Gods Will Enjoyment I Pray Praying To God

Author:Francois Fenelon

“See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.”

Ifs Men Mean Would Be Suffering Simple Poor Kindness Destruction Monsters Bread Generosity Buying Avoided Acts Of Kindness Alleviate Wholesale Working Women Simple Acts Of Kindness

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“I have a very simple question to people who seem to suffer from excessive narcissism: please name three other persons who are smarter and more capable than you, in the field you work in. (In most cases they are utterly unable to answer that question honestly.)”

People Persons Seems Suffering Three Names Simple Answers Cases Fields Please Capable Honestly Narcissism Smarter

Author:Ingo Molnar

“The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.”

Ifs Needs Reason Suffering Water Simple Technique Unnecessary Emphasis Shamanism Deep Water Unnecessary Suffering

Author:Terence McKenna

“When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.”

Writing Matter Suffering Courses Simple Honest Duty Honor Unworthy Imposition

Book:A Tramp Abroad

Source: A Tramp Abroad

“Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.”

Suffering Fall Simple Growing Acceptance Rain Eternity Forgotten Corn

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.”

“Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.”

Desire Suffering Simple Nice Equations Flipped

Author:Charles Yu

“Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.”

Knows Joy Suffering Christ Prayer Loss Simple Study Mystery Crosses Sickness Destroying Shut Up Flavor Penetrate Wondrous I Love Him

Book:Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.

Source: Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.

“Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.”

Suffering Imagination Simple Green Dishes Salad

Author:James Beard

“The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness.”

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Author:Dalai Lama