Best suffering & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”

People World Looks Persons Self Enough Action Suffering Results Wonder Example Produce Feds Inaction Famine Calories Irresponsibility Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Lee Strobel

“You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should they seek this nebulous goal called self-discovery.”

Inspirational Should Persons Self Shows Suffering Goal Buddhism Discovery Self Discovery Miserable

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When all of the selves have been dissolved, you will enter into the super-conscious awareness. Then, you are free. Then, there is no suffering. Then, there is no attachment.”

Has Beens Self Suffering Awareness Conscious Attachment Hinduism Conscious Awareness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people suffer from the self limiting dysfunction "rear-view mirror syndrome" driving through life with their subconscious mind constantly looking in their own self-limiting rear-view mirror. They filter every choice they make through the limitations of their past experiences. Always remember that your potential is TRULY unlimited, and that you are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving everything you want as any other person on earth.”

“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

“Life is just masturbation in a sense, mentally. What people do is they just create a world out of their self-reflection.”

People World Self Life Is Suffering Reflection Self Reflection Masturbation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.”

May Mean Self Suffering Violence Stage Errors Pursuit Doctrine Opponents Application Satyagraha Vindication Infliction

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.”

Men Self Whole Suffering Half Ill Violation

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”

People Mean Has Beens Self Light Action Suffering Chance Vision Satisfied Oppressed Self Reliance Reliance Memorial Memorial Day Memorial Day Remembrance Memorial Day Messages

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.”

World Self Done Used Suffering Nations Race Known Ambition Method Intention Defeat Self Confidence Mediums Propaganda Organized Warfare Good Intentions

Author:Marcus Garvey

“You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.”

Feels Self Pain Suffering Causes Illusion Yoga Karma Fixed Karma Yoga Pain And Suffering

Author:Frederick Lenz

“One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.”

Ifs Knows Men World Doe Self Pain Suffering Wish Pleasure Existence Watches Flow Rivers Empty Likes Lasting One Man Dislike Void Stable Another Man Accord True Peace Likes And Dislikes

Author:Ajahn Chah

“The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.”

Self Moving Suffering Failing Rivers Shining Life Changing True Self

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.”

Men Self Form Law Suffering My Own Forever Sacrifice Fairs Vote Fellows Quitting Oppression Self Respect Seventies Foul Public Life Infliction

Author:Joseph Gurney Cannon

“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”

Self Suffering Results Attitude Too Much Loneliness Source Extremes Isolation Self Centered Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Dalai Lama

“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

“It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.”

Ifs Knows Way Believe Self Reality Pain Suffering I Believe Know How Comfort Endure Cease Comfort And Happiness

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity of love, we are not only happy in spile of the cross, but because of it; for love is pleased in suffering for the Well Beloved, and the cross which forms us into His image is a consoling bond of love.”

Wells Self Form Suffering Love Is Half Self Love Crosses Simplicity Beloved Interference Consoling Bonds Of Love

Author:Francois Fenelon

“True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.”

Self Suffering Crosses Truly Happy

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.”

Ifs Persons Made Self Done Seems Used Suffering Dies Social United Reflection Relation Stuck Used To Be Torture Superstitions Pins Witchcraft Counterparts

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted? It is about time that we pulled our fingers out? The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.”

World Doe Self Suffering Lost Military Fingers Defeat Campaigns Self Inflicted

Author:Prince Philip

“That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant.”

“Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?”

May Self Suffering Answers Dying Limits Killing Acceptable Disabled

Author:Wesley J. Smith

“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.”

“All our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.”

Self Feelings Pain Suffering Loss Pleasure Involved Gains Arise Granted Occupation Vague Pain And Pleasure

Author:Francisco Varela

“My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.”

Knows Self Suffering Atheism Method Positive Atheism Conversion Tyrants Coercion Infallible

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.”

Humans Kind Self Whole Suffering Secret Events Needed Balance Mass Tragedy Triumph Excitement Midst Serenity Tranquility Attempting Calamity Rushing Secret Life

Author:Margaret Bourke-White

“Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.”

Knows Self Sometimes Young Suffering Strong Millions Eating Diets Our Society Disorder Strong Women Young Women Emphasis Eating Disorder Dieting I Am Strong

Author:Tipper Gore

“Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.”

Self Suffering Causes Patterns Destructive Catastrophe Self Destructive

Author:Anais Nin

“Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.”

Knows Men Self Suffering Mercy Defense Abortion Self Defense

Author:Alice Walker

“Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.”

“The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.”

Needs Feels Self Feelings Suffering Company Solitude Ego Humble Modest Inadequate

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the scene and we are still suffering the consequences of a man-driven, self-serving, short-sighted environment.”

“Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true self in God, who they were before anyone said anything about them, before they received their first medal or ego identification. That`s why suffering is so important, because suffering is when those little rewards are taken away from you.”

People Firsts Littles Said Important Self Suffering Culture Taken Trouble Modern Ego Rewards True Self Medal Inner Life Identification Away From You Modern Culture

Author:Richard Rohr

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.”

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Self Country Sometimes Suffering Attitude Self Esteem Pride Lows Be Good Esteem Low Self Esteem Developed Country National Pride

Author:Amy Irving

“The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.”

“Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.”

Thinking Believe Self Joy Suffering Individual I Believe Easy Self Esteem Negative Patterns Esteem Persistence Deceptive Persuasive Negative Thinking Patience And Persistence

Book:Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual

Source: Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual

“Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.”

People Ifs Kind Self Facts Problem Body Suffering Black Love Is Love You Hair Development Self Love Your Body Cures Instance Love Yourself Bucks Just Love Yourself Nappies

Author:Alice Walker

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

Ifs Thinking Should Self Light Suffering Mistake Alive Creating Insight Making Mistakes Concentration Impermanence

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

Men Giving Self Seems Suffering Imagination Greater Dangerous Comfort Giving Up Female Charity Cop Hierarchy Looking Down Perpetuating

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.”

Humans Self Suffering Wish Human Beings Concern Profound Ill Torture Sickness Treatment Contempt Mistrust Desolation Wretchedness Indignity Ill Treatment

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little anxiety. ... By protecting people from risk, we destroy their self-esteem. We rob them of the opportunity to become strong, competent people.”

People Knows Littles Self Suffering Opportunity Strong Realizing Risk Effects Self Esteem Anxiety Productivity Esteem Uncertainty Destructive Competent

Book:Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

Source: Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business

“Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.”

“The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.”

Men Love Should Kind Self Form Certain Suffering Universe Sin Particular He Man Self Love Importance Graves Traditional Virtuous Defects Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.”

“Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.”

Love Self Suffering Imposing Purification

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.”

Self Sometimes Truth Suffering Quests Tapas

Book:Gandhi: Selected Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings

“The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.”

Mean Soul Self Suffering Turns Force Growth Violence Function Resistance Reform Passive Purification Soul Force Passive Resistance

Book:Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

Source: Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

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