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~ Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't. ~ ~ Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering ~ ~ Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity ~ ~ Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. ~ ~ I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ~ ~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ ~ Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. ~ ~ Blessed be the inventor of photography It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones. ~ ~ The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ~ ~ Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ~ ~ If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains - then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies ~ ~ If men were equally at risk from this conditionóif they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trainsóthen I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies. ~ ~ If men were equally at risk from this condition -- if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis, that they would have to go nearly a year without a stiff drink, a cigarette, or even an aspirin, that they would be subject to fainting spells and unable to fight their way onto commuter trains -- then I am sure that pregnancy would be classified as a sexually transmitted disease and abortions would be no more controversial than emergency appendectomies ~ ~ The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance. ~ ~ People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. ~ ~ We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~ ~ Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ~ ~ Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ~ ~ Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~ ~ One must chose in life between boredom and suffering ~ ~ I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ~ ~ What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. ~ ~ Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders ~ ~ As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. ~ ~ Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~ ~ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of overcoming it. ~ ~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ ~ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ~ ~ We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn. ~ ~ That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect. ~ |
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