Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.

I think he will deliver me from my suffering.

Rather suffer than die is man’s motto.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings...

But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and loving yield suffering. Love in our world is suffering love. Some do not suffer much, though,...

One of my biggest problems in dealing with the breakdown of my body is that I keep looking in the wrong direction. I look to the past and the capabilities I once had, instead of...

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Out of suffering comes creativity

116. “I have heard that on the day the world was born,the bird of love was released to fly.It searched all the three worldsbut could not find a fit resting place.So it turned and entered...

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

But we have, if not our understanding, our own experience, and it feels to me sealed, inviolable, ours. We have a last, deep week together, because Wally is not on morphine yet, because he has...

…there’s the suffering from love and the suffering from grief – either pain permanently scars the soul…

I’m an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by...

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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.

you must never blame other people for what you Going through because it will teach you a lesson and that time you have to be gratefull

I saw that she didn’t want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it’s because there’s something important to be said.

[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of...

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to...

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.2) An omniscient, wholly good being would...

Love is something worth suffering for…

… one fire burns out another’s burning.One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. -Romeo & Juliet

There is probably not going to be a recovery until 2003. I expect the suffering to continue and impact most of the telecom stocks.

It is good thing to learn the truth one’s self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When...

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel,...

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

This is all part of the imperialistic conspiracy that the region has been suffering from for years.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us as an alien agency within, striving for life and procreation blindly,...

God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.

Right, you’ve got a crooked sort of cross…” He consulted Unfogging the Future. “That means you’re going to have ‘trials and suffering’ — sorry about that — but there’s a thing that could be the...

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be...

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don’t suffer, time flows, so that they don’t live in...

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot...

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them.” (The Ables)

…But there’s always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there’s a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and...

To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that...

When machines break down, it’s people who suffer.

We live by revelation, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget the...

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don’t have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise...

You’d have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn’t seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she...

Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.

The undisciplined mind confuses misfortune with mistakes.