Quotes by Suffering Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things. Stephanie Kallos sufferinghurtthinking He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire. Stefan Zweig passionsufferinglove Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights. Stefan Zweig intellectualsufferinghistory Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. Stefan Zweig compassionsufferinglong In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. Stefan Zweig abnormalunderstandingsuffering To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. Stephen Batchelor empathycompassionsuffering Wanting things to be otherwise is the very essence of suffering. We almost never directly experience what pain is because our reaction to it is so immediate that most of what we call pain is actually our experience of resistance to that phenomenon. And the resistance is usually a good deal more painful than the original sensation. Stephen Levine painessencesuffering Letting go of our suffering is the hardest work we will ever do. It is also the most fruitful. To heal means to meet ourselves in a new way -- in the newness of each moment where all is possible and nothing is limited to the old. Stephen Levine sufferingletting-gomean Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been. Stephen Levine sufferingshould-havemight There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124) Stephen Levine sufferingheartbelieve We don't let animals suffer, so why humans? Stephen Hawking euthanasiasufferinganimal There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. Stephen Stills womenthreesuffering Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail. Steve Albini hatesufferingpeople The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence. Steve Berry sufferinggonemen i did know this- every second i spent with her was only going to add to the pain i would have suffer later Stephenie Meyer painsufferingadd High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that. Steve Carell sufferingyearsschool Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is - it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence. Steve Goodier sufferingaveragepeople I probably don`t show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else. Steve Irwin sufferingshows The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single. Steve Trotter threesufferingyears Fear of death is understandable, being that we are all going to die, but fear of life and suffering is more of an irrational fear because it's something that can be avoided. The torturous part is that suffering can be avoided if you have good luck. That's somewhat out of our hands, but is it? I don't know. "Is bad luck self-harm by another name?" Steve Toltz bad-luckgood-lucksuffering«186187188189190191192193194195196»
