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“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”

People Thinking Knows Men I Can Two Happens Law Artist Suffering Situation He Man Gay Men And Women Leaving Russia Isolated Avenues Bans Gay Men

Author:Elton John

“I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.”

Thinking May Mean Helping Hands Suffering Fall Politics Economy Land Source Exercise Areas Liberalism Dependent Treatment Monopoly Lordship Irrigation

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you accidentally place your finger in a flame, it is supposed to hurt just long enough for you to pull it out. If you think there is value in keeping it there, you will be a crispy critter. Pain is a minor element of life, unless you are indulging it. Then it becomes suffering. Get the message and then get on with your life, which is far more about joy than sorrow.”

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Author:Alan Cohen

“I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.”

People Thinking Trying Art Important Matter Film Suffering Heard Shame No Matter What Important Things Climate Strive Greed Corporate Keep Trying Corporate Greed

Author:Paddy Considine

“We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.”

Thinking Men May Suffering Virtue Subjects Humility Angel Admire Torture Demon Heroism Martyr Infirmity Magnanimity

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.”

Thinking Suffering Culture Known Succeed Bible Revelations American Culture

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.”

Thinking Art Helping Pain Joy Suffering Daylight

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.”

Thinking World Way Giving Firsts May Has Beens Stills Hard Lasts Suffering Felt Born Deals Half This World Stones Suicide Glad Spite Dozen Tempted

Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.”

Thinking Men Enough Body Suffering Enjoy Company Humour Equal Nonsense Blockheads

Book:A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

“As to the aridity you are suffering from, it seems to me our Lord is treating you like someone He considers strong: He wants to test you and see if you love Him as much at times of aridity as when He sends you consolations. I think this is a very great favor for God to show you.”

Ifs Thinking Want God Shows Seems Suffering Strong Lord Tests Favors Consolation Our Lord

Book:The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus

Source: The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about, maybe 62 or something like that. And I think my healthy lifestyle has paid off. I suffer from osteoarthritis. That's genetic and there's nothing I can do about that, except to try and not jump up and down, but rather swim and bike, instead of jumping up and down.”

Thinking Trying Looks I Can Age Suffering Can Do Healthy Paid Lifestyle Swim Bike Jumping Up And Down Healthy Lifestyle Paid Off

Author:Jane Fonda

“There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Two Suffering Grows Human Beings Broken Majors Shed Worn Unwilling

Author:Mark Nepo

“I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.”

Thinking Humans May Suffering Race Wall Consequence Crisis Climate Climate Change Financial Decades Human Race Realising Hitting Severe Financial Crisis

Author:Michael Meacher

“As Shantideva says, suffering has many good qualities because it purifies our negative karma, increases our renunciation and compassion, reduces our pride, and helps us to overcome our bad mental habits. If we think in this way we will feel that difficult circumstances are our best friends. When our mind is balanced in this way it becomes as stable as Mount Meru, and nothing can cause it to shake.”

“I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.”

People Thinking Men Humans Suffering Understanding Creative Conditions Possibility Particular Gay Empathy Active Mutual Human Condition Solidarity Homophobia Gay Men

Author:Adrienne Rich

“I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people coming together and saying «let's make solutions» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.”

People Thinking World Problem Together Young Suffering Solutions Coming Together

Author:Shinzen Young

“I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.”

Thinking Suffering Eating Drinking Horrible Viewers Quicksand

Author:Bear Grylls

“Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.”

Thinking Trying Humans Suffering Social Creatures Honestly Intimacy Crave

Author:James Mercer

“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

“I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.”

Thinking Should Suffering Couple Gay Gay Couples

Author:Dolly Parton

“I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.”

Thinking Want Should Ends Stories Suffering Animal Fashion Periods Hot Sake

Author:Taraji P. Henson

“Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out because he's not really a drinker. They think he might have picked up some type of infection while wiping his ass with the Bill of Rights.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Suffering Speak Source Dare Timidity

Book:John Adams

Source: John Adams

“If a general and his men fear death and are apprehensive over possible defeat, then they will unavoidably suffer defeat and death. But if they make up their minds, from the general down to the last footsoldier, not to think of living but only of standing in one place and facing death together, then, though they may have no other thought than meeting death, they will instead hold on to life and gain victory.”

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Author:Yoshida Shoin

“Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.”

Thinking Needs Pain Suffering Sweet Communication Painful Interpretation Fulfilled Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.”

Thinking Important Moments Suffering Walks Important Moments

Book:The Wizard Heir

Source: The Wizard Heir

“If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.”

Ifs Thinking Helping Suffering Improvement Helping Others Dramatic

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Ends Shows Suffering Opportunity Given Audience Middle Beginning Middle And End

Author:Khandi Alexander

“I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering.”

Thinking Mind Heart Ends Suffering Too Much My Heart Quiet Sand Hiding

Author:Ram Dass

“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”

People Thinking Men Mean Sometimes Hard Form Suffering Rooms Fire Holy Men And Women Difficulty Prepared Burning Flames Rescue Refined Hazing Looking For A Man

Author:Mark Galli

“Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.”

Thinking Sometimes Suffering Childhood Novelists Perpetual Syndromes

Author:Simon Mawer

“I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.”

Thinking World Pain Suffering Realizing Anxiety Percent Privilege Elites Pain And Suffering

Author:Nouriel Roubini

“I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.”

People Thinking Suffering Music And Dance

Author:Hugh Masekela

“...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.”

“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.”

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Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach

“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.”

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

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

“I'm a triathlete. Running is when I do my best living and my best thinking. I love the discipline, pushing yourself to suffer as much as you can, because it leads to a form of redemption.”

Thinking Running Form Suffering Discipline Redemption Pushing Push Yourself

Author:Naomi Benaron

“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.”

People Thinking Way Trying Made Able Suffering Black Lines Trouble Modern Minutes Source Letters Sticks Boxes Superiors Mail Burned Blank Stamps Modern Life Cork Chagrin

Author:Robert Benchley

“Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.”

Thinking Important Feelings Suffering Community Space Failing Cry Expression Okay Happy Life Sad Day Expression Of Feeling

Author:Marianne Williamson

“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

“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

“Fear of success is one of the new fears I've heard about lately. And I think its definitely a sign that we're running out of fears. A person suffering from fear of success is scraping the bottom of the fear barrel.”

Thinking Persons Running Suffering Heard Bottom Barrels Fear Of Success Scraping

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.”

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Author:Anthony Storr

“Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.”

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Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“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.”

“Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense that black people got to get something better than whites or Latinos or Asians. This is just basically that we keep complaining about what we don't have and what we can't do, and then, when we get in positions to do stuff, we fight amongst ourselves like savages.”

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Author:KRS-One

“My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.”

Thinking Needs Might Action Used Suffering Father Situation Arise Clarity Signals Disturbing

Author:Sylvia Boorstein

“There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.”

“Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off elaborate hoaxes. But while Santa and the bunny suffer the derision of eight year olds everywhere, actively-managed stock funds still have an ardent following among otherwise clear-thinking adults. This continued loyalty amazes me. Reams of statistics prove that most of the fund industry's stock pickers fail to beat the market.”

“I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.”

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Author:Red Smith

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