As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?. . . Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.
Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.
She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.
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.
. . . stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.
Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.
They only the victory win, Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within; Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight -- if need be, to die.
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.