Suffering Quotes - Page 14

Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.

People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.

What could ever tempt me to share my pain? Why willingly increase it by coming close to another human being, inevitable causing severe damage with the sharp edges of my broken heart?

Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.

All pain seemed to come with lots of blood, and lots of mental anguish, too. I already knew about that. Maybe that was the worst kind of pain, because nobody knew about it but you.

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".

The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77)

Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering
as sacred remedy for all our sins,
that best and purest essence which prepares
the strong in spirit for divine delights!

The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system...

Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.