Ajahn Sumedho Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Trying Quotes

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Moving Quotes , Suffering Quotes

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

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To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.

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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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The only way love punishes in by suffering.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Love 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

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

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

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Pleasant Surprises Quotes

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Men Quotes , Suffering Quotes

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

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Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

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Suffering belongs to no language.

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On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sorry Quotes , Suffering Quotes

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Fire Quotes , Suffering Quotes

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Suffering Quotes

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Suffering Quotes