My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.
The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.
Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.
People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds. . . If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.
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.
History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona
Pain is a message asking for our help.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering
We do not suffer by accident.
Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.
In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.
When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.