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Suffering Quotes
Carrying pain, finding meaning.
One quote here describes a personal tribute - tattoos worn in memory of people suffering from hunger around the world - grounding the topic in something concrete rather than abstract. Related themes continue in Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to 'get over it,' how to just 'get to the other side.'
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
- Gravely
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020