All Quotes By Tag: Suffering
“What is worth winning in this world? The three veds (sufferings). The one who has conquered ved (sufferings), he has conquered the whole world. What are the three veds (the sufferings)? The male, the female and the neutral gender.”
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“Love is a trap and only reveals itself to us by making us suffer.”
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“Your body would not get sick if you held no thought of resentment. It is neither good nor bad of itself. If we hold anything against anyone, we will suffer ourselves.”
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“You can turn every ugly and damaging drama into a genuine blessing by seeing it differently. No one is suffering on purpose. We learn to give up the pleasure we feel in self-righteously blaming others. Healing happens when we see things differently. The question is: do you want suffering or peace? It’s that simple.”
“For the first time in this 11 years–I have come to love the darkness–for I believe now that it is a part, a very, very small part of Jesus’ dakness and pain on earth. You have taught me to accept it [as] a “spiritual side of ‘your work'”… (Mother Teresa, quoated in Kolodiejchuk, p. 208).”
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“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person’s suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered now.”
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“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men… This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)”
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“There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”
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“Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”
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“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.”
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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
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“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”
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“Never consider another to be the cause of your suffering. Suffering is always the results of one’s own deeds or faults.”
“In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.”
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“All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.”