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Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. -- Paulo Coelho
Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear. -- Sue Grafton
I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss. -- Matt Chandler
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. -- Kurt Cobain
All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony. -- Lin Yutang
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When we can bear reality thoroughly, suffering is over. Pain may exist, but it is only pain. Suffering is what we add to pain. -- Brenda Shoshanna
Without repentance, there is no real progress or improvement in life. Pretending there is no sin does not lessen its burden and pain. Suffering for sin does not by itself change anything for the better. Only repentance leads to the sunlit uplands ofa better life. -- D. Todd Christofferson
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or painful situations from which they cannot escape. Even if it is not the same experience of pain, anxiety, or suffering undergone by humans- or even other animals, including members of the same species- an individual's pain, suffering, and anxiety matter. -- Marc Bekoff
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring. -- Bart Yates
Suffering = Pain x Resistance -- Shinzen Young
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. -- Henepola Gunaratana
Pain is certain, suffering is optional. -- Gautama Buddha
Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional. -- Kathleen Casey
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. -- Haruki Murakami
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. -- Paulo Coelho
Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men -- Virgil
Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing -- Brad Pitt
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. -- Karl Marx
Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. -- Henry Suso
The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance. -- Gautama Buddha
Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. -- Gautama Buddha
Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option. -- Tony Robbins
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. -- Rumi
Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. -- Lurlene McDaniel
I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment. -- Ray Davies
Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering. -- Shinzen Young
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. -- Joy Harjo
How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering, -- Chuck Schuldiner
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others. -- Richard Rohr
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. -- Princess Diana
I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism. -- Tim Hansel
Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone. -- Jennifer Young
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. -- Noah Levine
There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. -- Karl Marx
Pain in your past will become power in your future. So make suffering essential. -- Debasish Mridha
You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering. -- Sophocles
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
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
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. -- Emil Zatopek
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
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n. -- Byron Katie
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. -- Philip Yancey
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One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. -- Joe Abercrombie
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. -- Allen Ginsberg
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
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. -- Willie D
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. -- Ishmael Beah
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. -- Emil Dorian
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary. -- Albert Camus
Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it? -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain. -- Audre Lorde
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. -- Tracy Chapman
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
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
Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. -- William P. Young
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
I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too. -- Wayne Coyne
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. -- Naomi Watts
Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us. -- Leona Lewis
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction. -- Saadi
If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel. -- Thomas Voeckler
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human. -- Saadi
Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression. -- D. Todd Christofferson
We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. -- Alistair Begg
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay. -- Raoul Vaneigem
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples. -- Pope Francis
When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. -- R. C. Sproul
In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life. -- Debasish Mridha
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. -- Layne Staley
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. -- Rod Stryker
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction -- Dalai Lama
Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions. -- Sharon Salzberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter. -- Florynce Kennedy
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself. -- Hermann Hesse
Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter. -- Philippe Claudel
We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering. -- Brittany Maynard
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once. -- Julian Beck
There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion. -- Lee Strobel
You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering. -- Jake Adelstein
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. -- Pio of Pietrelcina

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