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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
Love
Good
Journey
Soul
Suffering
Other
Must
Through
Towards
Learn
Deal
Always
Go
Get
To Love
Good Deal
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
Diane von Furstenberg
Art
Good
Nature
You
Suffering
Better
Beauty
Design
Harmony
Total
About
Perfect
Emotion
Leaf
Look
Mostly
Branch
Than
Different
Function
Designer
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual
Suffering
People
Some People
Meditation
Some
Spiritually
Simply
Contact
Because
Without
Coming
Any
May
Anymore
Stand
Teaching
Awaken
Ever
Technique
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Franz Kafka
Nature
You
Suffering
Yourself
World
Free
Holding
Back
Something
Could
Perhaps
Very
Hold
Your
Avoid
Sufferings
It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.
Lilith Saintcrow
Time
Character
Suffering
Long
Long Time
Difficult
Say
Spent
Inside
Case
Goodbye
Always
Years
Celebrating
Literally
Them
Series
Two
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
Life
Suffering
Must
Boredom
Between
Choose
What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.
Mark Barrowcliffe
Suffering
Women
Men
Looking
Older
Back
Insecurities
Someone
Both
Trophy
He
Feel
Safe
She
Make
Answer
Common
Different
Younger
Who
Older Men
Her
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it.
Martha Beck
Daily
You
Be Happy
Happy
Suffering
Yourself
Simple
Free
Complete
Following
Mental
Hygiene
Part
Observe
Wishes
Until
Well
Repeat
Offer
Anxious
Any
May
Upset
Mean
Your
Actually
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Suffering
Corruption
Free
Poison
Think
Other
Other Countries
Our
Worse
Say
India
Countries
Condition
Curses
Biggest
Which
Much
Really
Bribery
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
Sam Harris
Character
Thoughts
You
Suffering
Yourself
Training
Thought
Lost
Every
Spell
Our
Spend
Our Lives
Those
Physical
Hostage
Takes
Almost
Almost All
Like
Just
Break
Against
Product
Moment
Assault
Lives
Nearly
Defend
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Sharon Salzberg
Ignorance
Change
Suffering
Courage
Compassion
Bitterness
Holding
Our
Negligence
Those
Support
Like
Clinging
Conditions
Holding On
Things
Need
I think it's a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, 'How can I go promote my gun control agenda?' as opposed to saying, 'How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?'
Steve Scalise
Saying
Day
Suffering
Gun
Gun Control
Somebody
First
Control
Think
Promote
About
Shame
First Thing
How
Opposed
Go
Pray
Hears
Families
Shooting
The First Thing
Agenda
Help
Thing
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness
You
Suffering
Experience
Run
No Chance
Fact
Tendency
Look
Real
Real Happiness
In Fact
Suffered
Away
Chance
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
Ben Okri
You
Suffering
World
Live
Imagination
Rather
Begin
Than
Prefer
Realize
Create
Imagine
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fruit
Suffering
Christ
Cross
Allegiance
Exclusive
Tragedy
Endure
Which
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
Federica Mogherini
Justice
Peace
Suffering
Revenge
Hatred
Crimes
Elusive
Unable
Unpunished
More
Remains
Leading
Since
Most
Obtain
Without
Redress
Go
Goal
Impunity
Victims
Acts
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friendship
Suffering
Joy
Our
Someone
Over
Makes
Friend
Rejoicing
I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.
Jacque Fresco
War
Suffering
World
Poverty
Control
Resources
System
Unnecessary
Would
See
Like
Most
End
Human
Nations
Where
Richest
Human Suffering
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese
Man
Suffering
Will
Give
Except
Almost
Almost Anything
His
Up
Anything
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.
Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression
Suffering
Anxiety
Whatever
Sense
Think
Bipolar
Severe
One Thing
Mental
Mental Illness
Had
Fair
Fair Amount
Contend
Deal
Personal
Anybody
Whether
Illness
Actually
Thing
Amount
Resilience
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy
Death
Suffering
People
Some People
Forcing
Others
Consists
Threat
Some
Want
Violence
Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.
Michael Leunig
Truth
Great
Suffering
Face
Compliance
Easter
One Thing
He
Also
His
Reflecting
Reflects
Authority
Where
Stories
Holds
Thing
Jesus
Two
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
Future
Suffering
Animal
Vegan
Own
Future Generations
My Own
Both
Habitable
Vegetarian
Generations
Towards
Reducing
Leaving
End
Itself
Human
Being
Planet
Means
View
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
Rob Bell
Angry
Suffering
Tomorrow
Rage
Otherwise
Our
Would
Shake
Weep
Never
New
Vent
Discover
Fists
Get
Heavens
Process
Traumatic
Awful
Imagined
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness
Suffering
Result
Reward
Punishment
Consequence
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe
History
Suffering
Made
Enough
Punishment
Only
Colonial
New
Also
Were
Uprooted
Helpless
Slaves
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