Quotes by Suffering I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning. Adam Ross anxiety suffering fiction I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences. Adam Savage realization suffering thinking It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit. Adam Smith suffering doe men Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones. Adela Popescu important suffering animal Suffering belongs to no language. Adelia Prado language suffering What we suffer from today is an excess of education. Adolf Hitler excess suffering today Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen. Adolf Hitler germany anxiety suffering If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering. Adoniram Judson suffering trials missionary The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering. Adrienne Monnier suffering sight perfect My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance. Adrienne Rich suffering feelings children It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness Adrienne Rich resentment nerves suffering To work and suffer is to be at home. Adrienne Rich scenery suffering home When you stand in your own authority, based in your own direct experience, you meet that ultimate mystery that you are. Even though it may be at first unsettling to look into your own no-thingness, you do it anyway. Why? Because you no longer want to suffer. Because you're willing to be disturbed. You're willing to be amazed. You're willing to be surprised. You're willing to realize that maybe everything you've ever thought about yourself really isn't true. Adyashanti suffering want may When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails. Adyashanti suffering beautiful mean When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware? Adyashanti important eye suffering Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is. Adyashanti real suffering way Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself. Adyashanti our-relationship causes suffering Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. Aeschylus wall pain suffering The truth Has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Aeschylus pain truth suffering Only through suffering do we learn Aeschylus suffering «1234567891011»