Quotes by Suffering Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities. Matthieu Ricard buddhismsufferingmean We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage. Matthieu Ricard taskssufferingmatter unearned suffering is redemptive. Martin Luther King, Jr. suffering we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame. Maude Royden sufferingsillysex Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? Matthieu Ricard translatesufferingmind Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success Matthieu Ricard envybuddhismsuffering There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others. Matthieu Ricard our-actionsethicssuffering That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind. Matthieu Ricard buddhismsufferingmind There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. Matthieu Ricard opennesscompassionsuffering Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here. Matthew Arnold ironracesuffering What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage. Matthieu Ricard buddhismtaskssuffering Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. Matthieu Ricard empathysufferingbrain You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless. Matthieu Ricard sufferingworryadd Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others Matthieu Ricard good-and-evilsufferingevil To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better. Maurice Maeterlinck be-goodsufferingneeds The individual representation of the object, treated sympathetically or antipathetically, is highly necessary and is an enrichment to the world in form. The elimination of the human relationship causes the vacuum which makes all of us suffer in various degrees - an individual alteration of the details of the object represented is necessary in order to display on the canvas the whole physicals reality. Max Beckmann sufferingorderreality By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful. Max De Pree together-we-canserioussuffering Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. Maurice Maeterlinck our-thoughtssorrowsuffering I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison. Mark Twain honestypoisonsuffering It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then? Mark Twain sufferinglawheaven«134135136137138139140141142143144»
