Top 1200 Suffering The Consequences Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is CERTAIN, that nothing bad will ever happen to ME. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there ARE. But let's not talk about them, eh? By the time the consequences catch up to you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

I'm gut all the way, which is why I think I'm so connected to shows like Falling Water and even The Walking Dead, which is all about the mortal consequences of our actions. Generally, we act first and realize the consequences later.

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011.

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.

There are two consequences in history; an immediate one, which is instantly recognized, and one in the distance, which is not at first perceived. These consequences often contradict each other; ... look to the end of an accomplished fact, and you will see that it has always produced the contrary of what was expected from it.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

At the same time I think it is absolutely necessary that there be no confusion, no misunderstanding that if the Iraqis.. do not comply, then there will be consequences and those consequences will involve the use of military force to disarm them through changing the regime.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We make our children and students aware of the consequences of drug abuse and other forms of irresponsible behavior. But after all our persuading, if they still want to use harmful drugs, that is their privilege. In a free society, individuals must have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others. They must also suffer the consequences of their actions, as it is from consequences that they learn to choose properly

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.

By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Veterans served this country because they wanted to prevent the suffering of others,and now too many are suffering themselves.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” she told Gus. “It doesn't make you stronger. It doesn't build character. It only hurts.