I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.
Jesus didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.
The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.