Dalai Lama Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Suffering Quotes

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

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Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .

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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Purpose Quotes

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

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If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Suffering Quotes

If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

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The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

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Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Understanding Quotes , Suffering Quotes

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Feelings Quotes , Suffering Quotes

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

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The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

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If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

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Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , People Quotes , Suffering Quotes

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Pain Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Mind Quotes , Suffering Quotes