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Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. -- Lurlene McDaniel
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. -- Noah Levine
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. -- Sophocles
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. -- Philip Yancey
We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally. -- Dalai Lama
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace. -- Matt Chandler
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life -- Dainin Katagiri
Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way. -- Eric Maisel
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God. -- Beth Moore
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you. -- Mother Teresa
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. -- Angelina Jolie
I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we may succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings. -- Dalai Lama
If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him. -- David Wilkerson
Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them. -- Dalai Lama
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled. -- George Soros
Musically, there's probably nothing better than, after spending weeks or months of grinding on a lyric or a song, when you play a good song from beginning to end for the first time - there's a moment there where all the pain and suffering is worth it. -- Five for Fighting
Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering. -- Anandamayi Ma
Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there. -- Cheryl Rainfield
Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. -- Gary L. Francione
We all experience pain and suffering, but it is not the quintessential nature of life. Just because the earth turns away from the sun and night occurs doesn't mean that the sun isn't always shining. It might be hard to see sometimes, but goodness and divine beauty can always be found if you adjust your vision just right. -- John Friend
The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these horses are and how much pain and suffering they go through each day. Please do not ride [in horse-drawn carriages]. Take a beautiful walk together with your loved ones instead of bringing more pain to these beautiful animals. -- Lea Michele
Suffering = Pain x Resistance -- Shinzen Young
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -- Haruki Murakami
Pain is certain, suffering is optional. -- Gautama Buddha
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional. -- Kathleen Casey
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. -- Henepola Gunaratana
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. -- Paulo Coelho
Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing -- Brad Pitt
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men -- Virgil
Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. -- Henry Suso
Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option. -- Tony Robbins
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. -- Gautama Buddha
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance. -- Gautama Buddha
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. -- Karl Marx
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering. -- Shinzen Young
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. -- Rumi
I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment. -- Ray Davies
Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. -- Sean Stephenson
There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain. -- Jennifer Grey
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. -- Richard Rohr
How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering, -- Chuck Schuldiner
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. -- Joy Harjo
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. -- Paulo Coelho
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. -- Princess Diana
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. -- Jennifer Young
Pain in your past will become power in your future. So make suffering essential. -- Debasish Mridha
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. -- Karl Marx
I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism. -- Tim Hansel
When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me. -- Maggie Q
The benefits often outweigh the suffering. Never concentrate on the pain, focus on the reward. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name. -- Trent Reznor
The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it. -- Jud Wilhite
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n. -- Byron Katie
Suffering is optional. You're gonna have some pain but it doesn't have to make you suffer. -- Jhene Aiko
You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone. -- Kass Morgan
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. -- Emil Zatopek
One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. -- Joe Abercrombie
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We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it. -- Brenda Shoshanna
Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering. -- Guru Gobind Singh
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. -- Allen Ginsberg
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. -- Albert Camus
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. -- Ishmael Beah
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. -- Tracy Chapman
Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. -- Emil Dorian
Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. -- Audre Lorde
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. -- Willie D
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. -- Henry Rollins
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. -- William P. Young
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. -- William P. Young
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available. -- Daniel Akaka
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. -- Naomi Watts
There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again! -- Woody Allen
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering. -- David E. Sorensen
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. -- Saadi
I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too. -- Wayne Coyne
Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us. -- Leona Lewis
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. -- D. Todd Christofferson
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. -- Raoul Vaneigem
We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. -- Alistair Begg
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. -- Saadi
If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel. -- Thomas Voeckler
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. -- Layne Staley
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. -- Pope Francis
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. -- Sharon Salzberg
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. -- Rod Stryker
In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life. -- Debasish Mridha
When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. -- R. C. Sproul
Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. -- Michael Pollan
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! -- Dean Karnazes
What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering. -- Gautama Buddha
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life. -- Ravi Zacharias
So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life. -- Sunday Adelaja
My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there. -- Cheryl Rainfield
So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life -- Sunday Adelaja
Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering. -- Lee L Jampolsky
Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple. -- Lucy Grealy
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. -- Henry Suso
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain is temporary. -- Dave Dravecky
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. -- Stephen Colbert
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. -- Lee Strobel
Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create! -- William C. Brown
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. -- M. Scott Peck
You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led. -- Martha Beck
There are wars, there is pain, there is suffering, and there is even death. But none of these things prepare you for Monday morning. -- William Wallace
Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering. -- David Jeremiah
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate. -- Jill Greenberg

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