Quotes by Suffering I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer. Jodi Picoult sinsufferingwant The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able. John Lancaster Spalding sufferingselfovercoming To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. John Lubbock possibilitypainsuffering It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process? John Irving skillssufferingpeople An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any. John Lyly qualitythreesuffering So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it evil, the big dragonfly destroying the mosquito and ignoring the little insects suffering. Yet humans hated mosquitoes too, calling them vicious and bloodthirsty. All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention. John Marsden painsufferingevil Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. John Locke painsufferingchildren What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe destinysufferingmen I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering. John Green parentsufferinghurt A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.' 'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly. 'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong. John Marsden sufferingwould-bepeople It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D. John le Carre systematicsufferingdeath I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me. John Maynard Smith i-cansufferingbelieve Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult. John Masefield tragedysufferingpeople Better one suffer than a nation grieve. John Dryden nationssufferinggrieving Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens. John McGahern sufferingdoefiction Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If we offer it back to God, He will use it to do great things in us & through us, because suffering is fertile... it an grow new life. John Green painnew-lifesuffering You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental. John Lydon bedsufferingsides Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication. John Mortimer judgingsufferingjustice Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft. John Kenneth Galbraith sufferingwould-belong Me miserable! Which way shall I fly John Milton wrathsufferingheaven«103104105106107108109110111112113»
