Best turns & suffering Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.”

Needs Suffering Turns Tvs Horror Welcome Nightmare Turn-on

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”

Source: The Path to Enlightenment

“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.”

Ifs Want Suffering Turns Sorrow Affliction Hold Fast

Author:Al-Ghazali

“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.”

Men Years Littles I Can Suffering Turns Rooms Known Conditions Products Type Demand Disease Gains Stones Weight All Time Cups Plenty Appetite Candy Sufferers Anorexics Cocoa

Author:Victoria Wood

“I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.”

Heart Littles Suffering Turns Feet My Heart Honor Kissing Shadow Crosses Flesh Over It Adore Unworthy Hail

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“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.”

“I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

Thinking Ideas Soul Pain Suffering Turns Passion Awareness Capacity Relation My Soul No Idea Mutual Faculty Sensations My Thoughts My Passion Sensory

Author:Nicolas Malebranche

“If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.”

Ifs May Suffering Turns Opportunity Growth Poverty Violence Economic Despair Abandon Neglect Economic Growth Depriving

Author:Barack Obama

“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

Suffering Turns Fall Wind Habit Balls Great Men Exception Strings Slips Rooted Lapses New Habits Winding Up

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.”

People Suffering Turns Wall Expectations Machines Rude Telephones Offended Convenience Cheaper Turn Off Disruptive Switching Answering Machines Barges

Book:Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.”

Art Law Artist Suffering Turns Doors Sorrow Capacity Depth Deny Great Art Great Artist Reception

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.”

Pain Suffering Turns Add Rejects

Book:Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

Source: Zen and the Art of Falling in Love

“We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.”

Kind Pain Suffering Turns Belief Judgment All Kinds Interpretation

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.”

Feels Happens Pain Suffering Turns Accepting Struggle Strange Willing Experience Things Happen Strange Things

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”

Men World Want Should Doe Eye Suffering Turns Common Comfort His Eyes Despise Longevity Amusement World History Common Man

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.”

Persons Helping Seems Care Suffering Turns Can Do Groups Can Do Something Nobody Cares

Author:Elie Wiesel

“My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.”

Firsts Heart Book Feelings Suffering Turns Strong Understanding Steps Practice Path Teaching Acceptance Grew Forgiving Currents Radical Refuge Nurturing Unworthy Radical Acceptance

Author:Tara Brach

“Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action”

People Art Action Suffering Turns Awareness Mines

Author:Gabrielle Roth

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