Top 1200 Unnecessary Suffering Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others. Your hard journey has had a great purpose! Your pain was always a part of a plan to open your heart to love. Have faith. A miracle is happening in your life; the miracle of pain is transforming you to your highest self.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

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

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

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

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.

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

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

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

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

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

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

Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

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

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

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

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

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.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

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

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.

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

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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

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

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

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.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

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

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

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

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

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

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

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

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

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

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

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

The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.

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