Best suffering & able Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.”

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Author:Matt Lucas

“It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.”

World Stills Able Pain Joy Suffering Mood Happy Life Strife Save The World Pain And Suffering Bad Mood

Author:Andrew W.K.

“If you cheat, if your weights and measures are inaccurate, if your financial dealings are shoddy, if you take things that do not belong to you, you won't be able to hide it forever. People will find out. Then your reputation and your business will suffer, because people don't want to deal with someone who can't be trusted.”

People Ifs Want Able Suffering Deals Forever Honesty Weight Financial Reputation Trusted Cheat Dealings

Author:Wayne D. Dosick

“All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well, since we will have a body which is similar to our present physical body, but so much more glorious and wonderful and supernatural. We will be able to eat, drink, be merry and have fun without ever suffering pain or sickness or weariness or death.”

Wells Body Able Pain Suffering Next Fun Pleasure Wonderful Drink Having Fun Glorious Sickness Heavenly Merry Weariness Physical Body Next Life Suffering Pain

Author:David Berg

“A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.”

Persons Helping Able Suffering Compassion Capable Bodhisattva

Book:Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”

Knows Feels May Stills Able Pain Suffering Grows Water Cutting Alive Baby Bird Abuse Pressure Hot Injury Chickens Throat Dropping Tanks Breeding Hot Water Beaks Kfc

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.”

Done Able Suffering Speak My Own Blood Contrary

Author:Jim Dine

“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.”

Ifs Way Doe Two Able Suffering Christ Example Mouths Crosses Sheep Two Ways Slaughter Great Patience

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and toward peace and compassion, or in the direction of affliction and misery. What is it that we really want deep in our heart? Is it money, fame, power? Or is it finding inner peace, being able to live life fully and enjoy the present moment?”

“Well, yes, I could give up for myself but no, there are others whom I will be able to help and they're waiting for me and if I don't complete my task, if I don't do this perfectly, then what about them? They'll suffer.”

Ifs Giving Wells Helping Able Suffering Waiting Giving Up Yoga Tasks Karma Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

“Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.”

Knows Art Able Certain Suffering Deals Art Is Satisfaction Insecurity Paranoia Overrated

Author:Beth Gibbons

“Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.”

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Author:Will Smith

“Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.”

Thinking Able Suffering Realising Affliction

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.”

World Self Able Suffering Bears Highest Overcoming Appetite Thyself

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.”

Ifs Knows Love Able Faces Desire Suffering Passion Lost Love Is Masters Lovers Creatures Limits Blame Misery Bounds Creator Redemption Strongest Impotence Love Is Lost

Author:Stefan Zweig

“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”

“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

Ifs Men World Able Suffering Religious Enemy Poverty Ignorance Sick Misery Dues Barriers Superstitions Intolerance Inability Perversion Religious Intolerance Microbes

Author:Brock Chisholm

“Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.”

Long Stills Able Suffering

Book:Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women

Source: Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women

“When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.”

Men Mean Able Suffering Literature Born Gone

Author:Edouard Bourdet

“There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.”

Reason Able Form Suffering Decision Divine Judgment Leaving Our Time Imaginary Assertion Obsolete Sufferers Wrong Reasons

Book:Suffering

Source: Suffering

“Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer.”

May Able Pain Suffering

Book:You Don't Have to Suffer: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Life's Crises

Source: You Don't Have to Suffer: A Handbook for Moving Beyond Life's Crises

“The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain.”

Knows May Facts Reality Able Pain Suffering Our Lives Bears Add Torment Pain Suffering

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books.”

May Book Able Suffering Literature Doubt Mere Contribution Usual I May Not Be

Book:The Journals of George Eliot

Source: The Journals of George Eliot

“...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.”

“Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.”

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Author:S. N. Goenka

“It must be a source of great chagrin to those in charge to think of so many people being able to stick a stamp on a letter and drop it in a mail box without any trouble or suffering at all. They are probably working on a system this very minute, trying to devise some way in which the public can be made to fill out a blank, stand in line, consult some underling who will refer him to a superior, and then be made to black up with burned cork before they can mail a letter.”

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Author:Robert Benchley

“I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.”

“I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.”

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Book:The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

Source: The Works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift ...

“If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.”

Ifs World Way Heart Children Kids Today Able Jobs Suffering Can Do Century This World Broken Expectations 21st Century Dumbing Down

Author:Jeb Bush

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