Top 100 Wisdom Suffering Quotes
#1. Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#2. The greatest purpose of life is to serve the suffering humanity with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Every suffering is a buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom. But you can only say that suffering gives rise to buddhahood. You can't say that suffering is buddhahood. Your body and mind are the field. Suffering is the seed, wisdom the sprout, and buddhahood the grain.
Bodhidharma
#4. I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton
#5. How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.
Gautama Buddha
#6. "All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#7. Yes, we can alleviate human sufferings.
Just let us be kind and caring when we see someone is suffering.
Debasish Mridha
#8. 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
#9. The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.
Donna Goddard
#10. 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
#12. Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.
David Brooks
#13. In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own wisdom and power. Other
John H. Walton
#15. Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Oscar Wilde
#16. Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
Lynsay Sands
#17. There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.
Greg Jackson
#18. For the Gnostics and for the fiction writer evil is the source of all moral understanding; the function of evil, in the best of conditions, is tension and imbalance, the eventual creation, through suffering and misfortune, of wisdom.
Susan Neville
#19. Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
Libba Bray
#22. When I see that humanity is suffering, it tears my heart, I cry then extend my hand to help with my heart.
Debasish Mridha
#23. You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.
Robin Sharma
#24. Wisdom comes through suffering.
Trouble, with its memories of pain,
Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
So men against their will
Learn to practice moderation.
Favours come to us from gods.
Aeschylus
#25. Life has existential suffering; we become happy by caring.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.
Ryan Miller
#27. A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"
Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.
Shunryu Suzuki
#28. She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immediately: condemnation.
Erik Valeur
#30. If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley
#31. Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal
Merve Kavakci
#33. You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
#34. The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.
Nirmala Srivastava
#35. A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#36. The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
#37. If you combine the suffering's great color palette you will find happiness as well.
Sorin Cerin
#38. The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.
Deepak Chopra
#39. If a god had made the world, might world always be right, that would be so wise, we'd be spared so much suffering. But we made the world - out of our smallness and weakness. Our lives are awkward and fragile ...
Edward Bond
#40. Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
Aeschylus
#41. As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#42. have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparation moments or be a patient after preparation moments
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.
Carl Jung
#44. Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.
Vincent De Paul
#46. Life is a suffering. We suffer because we exist. So enjoy the sufferings with love to make life worthwhile to suffer for.
Debasish Mridha
#47. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#48. When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony.
Darrell Calkins
#50. Resilience is the virtue that enables people to move through hardship and become better. No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience.
Eric Greitens
#51. All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That
Doug Scott
#52. He who will not economize will have to agonize
Confucius
#53. Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer ... Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.
Vincent De Paul
#54. Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
#55. I laugh at the so-called 'practical' people and their wisdom. If one wants to live like a beast, it could naturally do, to turn its back on humanity's suffering and only care about its own pelt.
Karl Marx
#58. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
Michel De Montaigne
#61. When life is an existential suffering, death is our ultimate blessings.
Debasish Mridha
#62. It is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.
Thomas Merton
#63. Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it
Gerald Priestland
#64. None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
Djuna Barnes
#66. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
Aeschylus
#69. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#70. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.
Sam Harris
#71. 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
#72. Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.
Aeschylus
#73. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
Alison Croggon
#74. It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them
patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.
Barbara De Angelis
#75. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.
Andrew Ramer
#76. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
#77. Forgive us for relying on our own wisdom and strength; for the hours we spend trying to rescue ourselves from pain, suffering, and sin, when you have already rescued us in your Son.
Barbara R. Duguid
#78. It seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless. It didn't undo the harm he had wrought; it didn't please anyone or improve anyone's life.
Kim Fielding
#79. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
Zora Neale Hurston
#80. My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.
Ram Dass
#82. You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside
Rumi
#83. Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautama Buddha
#88. Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#89. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
Radhe Maa
#90. True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.
Whittaker Chambers
#91. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
Simone Weil
#92. Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
Gautama Buddha
#94. It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.
Jean-Yves Leloup
#95. I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.
Shauna Niequist
#96. Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
Arthur Helps
#97. Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.
Daisaku Ikeda
#98. The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.
John Newton
#99. There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
John Muir
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