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I hope suffering don't exist.
Suffering fuels strength.
Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
There is no limit to suffering.
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.
Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat ...
Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering.
The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
In suffering, you've found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life's wonders. You're still trying to believe it every day. One morning you convince yourself it will all be worth it, the next you're down and believe it all to be worthless.
Suffering is the frame, the context, where we learn to love.
Suffering is the decay of the heart; all that we have loved becomes the 'forbidden' when we have not understood it all ...
Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.
Suffering is an illusion.
Suffering sweetens the reward
Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
After identifying the scope of suffering, we need to discover its sources, which are twofold: afflictive, or counterproductive, emotions, and contaminated karmas.
Even your suffering
is not your suffering.
It all belongs to the one
who lives through you.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.
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.
Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
In suffering we learn what the soul can truly endure.
Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.
Suffering breaks us until there's nothing left but gentleness
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering
Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering ... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
True suffering lies in the expectation of pain as much as in the pain itself.
Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.
We receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.
Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
In suffering, we build our strength for ultimate success.
Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.
Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.
Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand ... there is suffering.
Suffering teaches joy.
In suffering, we find the true measure of our strength.
As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.
Suffering is not just "negative"; it is a bond through which we all touch each other. Suffering, truly, is the first grace. Dear
Our suffering, as well as our joy, shapes who we are and who we will become. We may wish for all of our trials to be taken away, but to do so would be a great disservice to our personal growth.
Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
Suffering has a noble purpose.
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this - that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.
There is some suffering that awaits us all.
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.
Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey through the valley is the darkest.
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
No matter what choices we make in life, suffering is always a part of what follows.
Sometimes you suffer for the things that are important to you.
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.
Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.
Suffering brings the patient to us ... the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person ...
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.
Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.
Suffering was life, full of suffering was the world.
EMBRACING SUFFERING If we let the suffering come up and just take over our mind, we can be quickly overwhelmed by it.
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering
a hell of boredom.
The root of suffering is attachment
Suffering often comes from the choices you make. Choose carefully.
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or energy passing through a conductor, it was a part of the natural world, to be studied, understood, and, when possible, managed.
Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions.
It is always tempting to try to shut out the suffering that is an inescapable part of the human condition, but once it has broken through the cautionary barricades we have erected against it, we can never see the world in the same way again.
When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Stress is a form of suffering.
Suffering awakes the spirit within.
Only the willing to suffer can conquer suffering.
Living, it's awful for me.
Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!
Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.
Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.