Top 100 Suffering Inspirational Quotes
#2. When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart, I cry then extend my hand to help with my heart.
Debasish Mridha
#3. The Peace Panda: Let Us Try To Remember That For Our Very Short Existence On This Planet That We Are Here To Help Humanity And Not Hurt It. May We Help All Those We Meet That Are Suffering And In Despair ... That Even If It's With Prayer, Bring Hope To Those In Need!
Timothy Pina
#4. Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.
Debasish Mridha
#6. God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
Vance Havner
#9. It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs.
Andre Harvey
#10. Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#11. A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.
Leslie T. Chang
#12. And yet she hadn't the air of a woman whose life had been touched by uncertainty or suffering. Pain, fear, and grief were things that left their mark on people. Even love, that exquisite torturing emotion, left its subtle traces on the countenance.
Nella Larsen
#14. Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
Desmond Tutu
#16. There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.
Christopher Langan
#17. Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.
Eleesha
#18. To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.
Marianne Williamson
#19. Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
Dan Millman
#20. Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#22. We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering.
Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?
Jimmy Carter
#23. The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal if you are a talented thief, and if you are not, then you may suffer all you please but if will buy you nothing but pain.
Karen Maitland
#25. The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
James Hollis
#26. Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.
David Ault
#28. Yes, we can alleviate human sufferings.
Just let us be kind and caring when we see someone is suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Don't judge a community by how much they are suffering but judge them by how much they are learning from it. That is what really matters.
Debasish Mridha
#30. When I die I hope it may be said:
'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life.
John P. Schuster
#32. There's often a reason why people and dogs bite. It's about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.
Jennifer Skiff
#33. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.
Elizabeth Berrien
#34. One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Simone Weil
#35. The day each person will deeply Love who they are, all suffering, violence and conflicts will naturally disappear
Denis Gorce-Bourge
#36. The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#37. I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
James Patrick McDonald
#38. What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.
Buddhadasa
#39. Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.
Leon Bloy
#40. Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I wanted to be able to live in the world so that I could live with myself. I wanted to do something practical to relieve the suffering of others, while at the same time striving to understand the circumstances of such suffering.
James Orbinski
#42. Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: I'm right; you're wrong.
Charles F. Glassman
#44. Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.
Josh Ross
#47. The real help victims of injustice need is to get the will, skill and resources to fight back. There may or may not be a hell in afterlife but suffering injustice quietly is a sin, punishment for which is a living hell here and now.
R.N. Prasher
#48. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#49. Mom could have shared her suffering with her children, but she didn't. She could have succumbed to a world of pain and sorrow, but she didn't. Instead she loved each of us deeper, and found even more reasons to celebrate our lives together.
Ron Mayes
#51. All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.
Abhijit Naskar
#52. The most wonderful things in life will be difficult. There is so shortcut, no easy way out. Success will be grueling. But the feeling that comes with it surpasses any pain, any suffering that you may endure on the way there.
Ally Peters
#53. If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.
Tommy Tran
#55. We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.
Sarah Jio
#56. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#57. I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#58. The truth about oppressors is that they are also as fearful as their victims if not suffering continuous panic attacks about losing power
Peter Mutanda
#59. Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.
Meghna Pant
#62. When life is an existential suffering, death is our ultimate blessings.
Debasish Mridha
#63. At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.
Scott Hahn
#64. We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]
John Green
#65. Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.
Juls Amor
#66. Why wait? So precious is this life - this gift - this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this.
Jennifer DeLucy
#67. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
#68. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.
Chelsey Philpot
#69. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.
Debasish Mridha
#70. We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
Viktor E. Frankl
#71. Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.
Sharon Salzberg
#72. Imagination is a glorious thing, Without imagination there would be no solace for our suffering, no wondrous creations, no stories to beguile us, and no magic...
Karen Wrighton
#73. Let us be the hope for those who are suffering.
Let us be the eyesight for those who are blind.
Let us show the way, nonjudgmental and kind.
Debasish Mridha
#74. Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#76. In the infinity and chaos that swirls around them, they have fulfilled their purposes: to live their lives with less suffering, to further humanity's forays into the inhospitable void, to love one another unconditionally, endlessly.
Kay Simone
#77. Best way to describe life could be suffering from your past or could just be a moment spend with heart full of satisfaction.
Santosh Kalwar
#78. I wanted to be the exception to the other kids, but in the right way.
We have a lot of suffering in our part of the world, but that suffering is, in a way, a blessing.
Obviously, I could not afford to go to school without a scholarship, so that meant I had to excel in order to get one.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#79. I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life.
Debasish Mridha
#80. Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.
Dean Karnazes
#81. Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness
Ivan Figueroa-Otero
#82. If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.
James W. Mercer
#83. Don't chew your worries, your suffering, or your projects. That's not good for your health. Just chew the string bean.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#84. When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you stronger in your faith.
Art Hochberg
#85. There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.
Richard Wurmbrand
#86. There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place.
Todd Neva
#87. When someone who is suffering looks to you for compassion, it's indeed a blessing; you are chosen to be their Light in a moment of sorrow.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#88. And then I remembered this basic religious principle that God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence ...
Annie Lamott
#89. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#90. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.
Maximus The Confessor
#91. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
#92. It's not the suffering that wears you down and defeats you, it's the meaningless suffering. There's no limit to what human beings will put up with if they think it all has a purpose; there's no limit to what they'll sacrifice
William John Watkins
#93. Live is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.
Peggy Sealfon
#94. We are all walking the same path, though it ain't some road scored in earth or sky or sea. It's the path of easing suffering, both ours and that of others, and we walk it till ever creature stands free of pain and lies, in unity with truth and peace, at last enlightened and made whole.
David Bowles
#95. She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
#96. Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.
Allen R. Hunt
#97. The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#98. If you see a person who is suffering from misery and sadness, wash it away with your compassion and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#99. I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.
L.K. Elliott
#100. Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
Paulo Coelho
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