Alan Watts Quotes, Moon 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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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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There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Dignity Quotes

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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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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We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Littles Quotes

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Courage Quotes , Suffering Quotes

I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Thinking 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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Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

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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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As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sympathy 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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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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If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

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It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Suffering Quotes , Energy Quotes

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

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Tags : Agatha Christie Quotes , Children Quotes , Suffering Quotes