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The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness. — Dalai Lama

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire. — Charles Yu

Suffering accepted and vanquished ... will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life. — Desire-Joseph Mercier

The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being — Dalai Lama

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. — Edgar Allan Poe

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them. — C.S. Lewis

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. — Scott Hahn

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers. — Karen Barad

When there is time, there has to be suffering. Because in time there's desire and attachment and transition. This is the world of experience. — Frederick Lenz

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain. — Paulo Coelho

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire. — Cheri Huber

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little. — Criss Jami

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering. — Deepak Chopra

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait — Frederick Lenz

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The Buddha says that pain or suffering arises through desire or craving and that to be free of pain we need to cut the bonds of desire."-Eckhart Tolle — Eckhart Tolle

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. — Samuel Beckett

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

She who desires peace must see, suffer and be silent. — Teresa Margaret Of The Sacred Heart

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. — Rod Stryker

The cessation of desire equates to the cessation of suffering — John Green

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love. — Philip Neri

Desire is the root cause of all suffering, all destruction, — Amish Tripathi

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools. — Peter J. Carroll

Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed? — Honore De Balzac

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff

I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence. — Marcel Proust

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz