Quotes by Suffering Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences. Sylvia Earle horizonoilsuffering We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. Sydney J. Harris withdrawalpainsuffering ... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead. Symeon the New Theologian deedssufferingchristian O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul! Symeon the New Theologian humilitysoulsuffering To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize. Susan Sontag compassionatesufferingdoe We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes. Swami Vivekananda responsiblecausessuffering Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world. T. J. MacGregor perspectivesufferingworld It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap. Swami Vivekananda reapfaultssuffering What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive. T.A. Barron balancedifferencessuffering Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. Tacitus gunsufferinglaw If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. Swami Vivekananda sufferingheartjoy I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now. Tadao Ando united-statessufferingthinking I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering. T. D. Jakes sicksufferingfather Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause. Swami Vivekananda mudsufferingmotivational This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone. Swami Vivekananda undonemiserysuffering Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. Tacitus punishmentexamplesuffering We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . . Swami Vivekananda karmafaultssuffering I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing. T. S. Eliot gentlefancysuffering By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else. Tanya Tucker horsesufferingkids Compassion can be described as letting ourselves be touched by the vulnerability and suffering that is within ourselves and all beings. The full flowering of compassion also includes action: Not only do we attune to the presence of suffering, we respond to it. Tara Brach compassionsufferingaction«189190191192193194195196197198199»
