Monday, January 15, 2018

Suffering - Quotes

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. - C. S. Lewis

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. - George Eliot

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. - Thich Nhat Hanh

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer any more. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Nothing brings suffering as does the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart. That heart brings suffering. - Gautama Buddha

It is not permanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent, when they are not. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. - Horatius

To be most fertile, the soil must first be torn up; and shall not thy soul accept suffering for the sake of better growth? - Ivan Panin

All suffering contorts the countenance so woefully that the pain flies to the beholder likewise. - James Vila Blake

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