Quotes by Suffering When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her. Leo Tolstoy painsufferingdesire The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. Leo Buscaglia positive-changetraumasuffering A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might. Leo Tolstoy russiagrowthsuffering The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world. Leonid Feodorov churchexamplesuffering He who is attached to things will suffer much. Laozi tao-te-ching-leadershipsuffering How can one be well...when one suffers morally? Leo Tolstoy moralitywellssuffering Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it is neither the advantages nor the faults which we discover, that make us abandon ourselves, or that repel us. It is a sweet, soft, enigmatic power that drives us on. We cease to think, to feel, to will; we let ourselves be carried away by it, and ask not whither? Leopold von Sacher-Masoch sufferingsweetthinking You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. Leonard Cohen lockedpleasuresuffering Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. Lesley Hazleton acceptedterrorsuffering Maybe we, the cultural workers , could apply ourselves. We're not going to resolve it in this moment or even in this generation, but perhaps as some kind of agenda we could invite our writers and cultural workers to address the problem a little more responsibly, because people are suffering tremendously from a want of data. Leonard Cohen datasufferingpeople A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life. Leslie T. Chang growing-upunderstandingsuffering Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person. Leston Havens patientsufferingneeds Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all. Lester B. Pearson foolgovernmentsuffering Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering. Lettie Cowman strongsufferingmind The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. Leonard Cohen obstaclessufferingpeople Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience. Leonard Cohen violentsufferingseems When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced. Lewis Browne sufferingevilideas It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world. Leonardo da Vinci ambitiousambitionsuffering Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering. Leonard Cohen anxietygriefsuffering We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity. Letitia Elizabeth Landon sufferingmayneeds«119120121122123124125126127128129»
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