Quotes by Suffering The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and the same desire for happiness, and not suffering, and the consideration that you as one individual are one life unit as compared with the mulititude of others in their ceaseless quest for happiness. Dalai Lama simplesufferingdesire It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we all share suffering. Asians, just like Americans, Europeans, and the rest of the world, share a desire to live life to its fullest, to better ourselves and the lives of our loved ones. Dalai Lama live-lifesufferingdesire Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety. Dalai Lama anxietysufferingcomfort I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind. Dalai Lama habitsufferingmind The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness. Dalai Lama sufferingcomfortdesire Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness. Dalai Lama compassionsufferingkindness The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering. Dalai Lama stagesufferingspiritual Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness. Dalai Lama helping-otherssufferinghappiness To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation. Dalai Lama situationgivensuffering We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind. Dalai Lama creatorsufferingmind Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering. Dalai Lama compassionsufferingmind I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human intelligence. The way to overcome all human suffering-that also is through human intelligence. Dalai Lama sufferingovercomingbelieve The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary. Dale Jamieson sufferinghumanityanimal Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted. Dale Jamieson billsgenerationssuffering I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. Dale Jamieson reducingsufferingworry Who would you trust right now? Which bank would you trust? Which investment would you trust? Do you really want to put your money; do you want to suffer more of these losses that we just had? You know, these volatility that we see is just unexplainable by any rational standards. Nobody has any clue about how to explain this, and nobody wants to experience that. So, we hold more money back, we don't necessarily want to invest in the market and by default, people are saving more. Dan Ariely sufferinglosspeople When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing. Dan Ariely scratchescoinssuffering Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character? Dan Barker atheistsufferingcharacter Drink without getting drunk Love without suffering jealousy Eat without overindulging Never argue And once in a while, with great discretion, misbehave Dan Buettner drunksufferingarguing Maybe love, like suffering, is relative. Dan Chaon maybe-loverelativesuffering«3738394041424344454647»
