Quotes About Relieving Suffering

#1. You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

Nhat Hanh

#2. Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

Ramana Maharshi

#3. Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.

Annie Dillard

#4. When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

Marcia Angell

#5. Fear is born in uncertainty and nourished by pessimism.

Lois Wyse

#6. A lot of social media is just about typing into boxes.

Austin Kleon

#7. Love's very pain is sweet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.

Chris Prentiss

#9. Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Annette Funicello

#10. ...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

Thomas Sydenham

#11. Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

Dalai Lama

#12. I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Henry Vaughan

#13. Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to withstand the sight of suffering, so that I might do Your work in relieving those who endure it. -Toti

Hannah Kent

#14. Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label
to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never not write a certain kind of novel out of fear of what the reaction to it will be.

John Irving

#15. Attacking a lightning rod doesn't make you lightning ...
Regarding Barack Obama

T. Rafael Cimino

#16. I think I'm a trivia nerd. I love to learn about everything. I'm curious.

Adam Rodriguez

#17. The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Daniel D. Palmer

#18. Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#19. There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.

Kate Reardon

#20. There's a finality to his words.
I feel a tear drip out because I know what this is.
It's a goodbye. And I don't understand any of it.
His voice drops. 'Don't cry.

Laura Thalassa

#21. The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#22. In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

Ike Skelton

#23. We never let our people just go. (Joe) What are you? Wolfram and Hart? (Steele) Oh, no, sweetie, they just take your soul for service. We intend to take even more than that. (Tee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon