Quotes by Suffering We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross Paul Tournier mysterysufferingdoubt People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows. Paul McCartney arrowssufferingpeople I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ. Paul Washer sufferingorderyears ...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. Paul Yingling militarysufferingwar Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world. Paulo Freire sufferingreflectiontwo I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide. Pavel Peter Gojdic sufferingtwoyears We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works. Payam Akhavan sacrificesufferingworld What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible. Peace Pilgrim sufferingwarpeople If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur. Paulo Coelho pleasant-surprisesgood-thingssuffering When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment Pema Chodron sufferingstruggleletting-go It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new. Pema Chodron causessufferingbelieve I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most. Penelope Cruz sufferingworrytrying Education is suffering from narration sickness. Paulo Freire pedagogy-of-the-oppressedsicknesssuffering I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. Pele sufferingmenreality The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson. Peace Pilgrim painsufferingtrying Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life. Paulo Freire transformationsufferinggiving Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick. Pema Chodron painsufferingloss the older I am, the more I refuse to treat my work as therapy and the more I think it's less honest to do that, less about acting. When I was younger, I sometimes used personal things in creating characters, to the point where I thought maybe it was a little bit dangerous - at least for me. But I don't feel that somebody can only be good in a character if they are really becoming that person or really suffering. Penelope Cruz sufferingcharacterthinking We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased. Pema Chodron relaxchoicessuffering Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. Pema Chodron medicinecompassionsuffering«152153154155156157158159160161162»
