Suffering Quotes - Page 7

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Rather than idolizing perfection, we must choose to cherish what is real. To truly live is to love deeply, to get messy, to sometimes get hurt, and to stumble and fall. It is worth it. The alternative of living a life barren of these things in the pursuit of perfection would be tragically uninteresting.

The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.

When the mind is distressed, the flow of inspiration will be distorted, intellectual faculties will be affected and unexpected confusion/problem will appear

Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven,
when all they needed to do was look about them,
and embrace that which was already there.

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time begins to slow and the ability to tend turns tender.

I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble-times when I have seen people tempted to deny God-when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

It’s easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering; Suffer and then do all of the above.

God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.