Suffering Is Inevitable Quotes

#1. As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable.

Pema Chodron

#2. The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last - that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

Pema Chodron

#3. When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

Jaggi Vasudev

#4. Suffering is inevitable, they said, but how we respond to that suffering is our choice. Not even oppression or occupation can take away this freedom to choose our response. Right

Dalai Lama XIV

#5. Suffering is inevitable. It is part of the human condition. It is written in the human script.

Johnny Rich

#6. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. - UNKNOWN I

Lori Deschene

#7. Pain and suffering
Is inevitable in this world
Yet we choose to survive.
I'm not scared of anyone anymore
And I can say
I've learned all I can from mice
Be a lion when you talk to me.

Monique Koll

#8. They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition; just accept it. But the greatest human skill is that of a choice maker.

Bryant McGill

#9. It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

Thomas Malthus

#10. This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. Suffering is a byproduct of evolution by natural selection, an inevitable consequence that may worry us in our more sympathetic moments but cannot be expected to worry a tiger - even if a tiger can be said to worry about anything at all - and certainly cannot be expected to worry its genes.

Richard Dawkins

#12. Pain is inevitable but suffering is a choice.

Terrence S.M. Popp

#13. Pain from problems and disappointments, etc., is inevitable in life, but suffering is a choice determined by whether you choose to compare your experience and pain to something better and therefore feel unlucky and bitter or to something worse and therefore feel lucky and grateful!

Viktor E. Frankl

#14. I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make it work the same way I did with my juvenile mind - that is, to imagine how we are suffering. To record it being actual and then virtual.

Tony Burgess

#15. Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.

Sean Stephenson

#16. Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option

Chip Beck

#17. I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.

Elina Juusola

#18. If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

Phil Klay

#19. The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

Winston Churchill

#20. Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Pain and suffering are two different animals.

Henepola Gunaratana

#21. The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Billy Graham

#22. Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].

Sylvia Boorstein

#23. Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

J.I. Packer

#24. A universal truth of bicycling is this - pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

Robert Penn

#25. Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent.

Oliver Burkeman

#26. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable ... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#27. As you pass through life pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Anon

Gemma Jackson

#28. Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our suffering, the pain becomes stagnant, and stagnant pain can have a compounding effect if left unchecked.

Romany Malco