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Letter "S" » Suffering
«Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom.»
Author: Bodhidharma
| About:
Suffering
«An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.»
Author: Byron Katie
(motivational speaker, Philosopher)
| About:
Mind,
Questioning,
Suffering,
Truth
«Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough»
«Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.»
Author: Thomas Sydenham
| About:
Opium,
Pain,
Providence,
Suffering
| Keywords:
Almighty, Almighty God, efficacious, opium, pleased, relieve, remedies, sufferings
«Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other»
Author: Albert Pike
(Journalist, Lawyer, Soldier)
| About:
Brotherhood,
Mankind,
Sorrow,
Suffering
| Keywords:
brotherhood, constitutes, encounter, sympathize, sympathizes, sympathize with
«??-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I?d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity,?»
«But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.»
«'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it»
«And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Death and dying,
Suffering,
Truth
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, award, condemned, condemned to death, depart, penalty, villainy
«About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Suffering
| Keywords:
dully, old master, Old Masters
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