Self Suffering Quotes
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Self Suffering Quotes & Sayings
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Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are worse things than suffering and death ... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.
— Sandor Marai
Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
— Stephen Richards
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
— Byron Katie
Patience means self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
— Stephen Richards
Priceless virtues are love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, goodness, long-suffering, patience faithfulness and self-control.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
— Baruch Spinoza
The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.
— Stephen Richards
The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
— Stephen Richards
In deep suffering, you know the sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.
— Stephen Richards
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
— Stephen Richards
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
— David Brooks
In deep of suffering, I found my soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Networking events often resembled a pandemonium of self-indulgence with the pleasures of flesh on display.
— Elise Icten
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.
— Eckhart Tolle
Suffering ... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
— Michael Pollan
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
— Stephen Richards
Suffering awakes the spirit within.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.
— Juls Amor
Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The basis of Gandhi's nonviolence is to appeal to the good in others and evoke sympathy to one's cause through self-suffering.
— Arun Gandhi
All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.
— Abhijit Naskar
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct — Lamb Of God
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
— Dorothy Rowe
When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
— Stephen Richards
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
— Stephen Richards
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
— Sharon Salzberg
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
— Stephen Richards
In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
— Stephen Richards
In suffering we find our truest selves.
— Jessie Burton
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
— Byron Katie
Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
— Stephen Richards
Getting rid of the concept of self is the work of all meditators, because suffering is born from this concept.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
— Stephen Richards
Without hardships, how could we know hope?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
— Stephen Richards
Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
— Stephen Richards
Suffering is my teacher. If I pay attention to it instead of trying to numb it out, maybe it can lead me to its root.
— Michelle Colston
To experience what isn't, love what is.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.
— Gautama Buddha
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance.
— Randy Alcorn
Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control.
— Vladimir Nabokov
Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
— Stephen Richards
Sacred joy exists in any suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus
I puked rainbows all over my childhood, and it felt so good.
— L.K. Elliott
What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
I make myself suffer with a lot of self doubt.
— Joan Osborne
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
— Frederick Lenz
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
— Honore De Balzac
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
— Stephen Richards
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
— Stephen Richards
When I die I hope it may be said:'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'. — Shannon L. Alder
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
— Garchen Rinpoche
Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
— Stephen Richards
Freedom is self liberation and liberation of people from any suffering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every bit of pain can be a blessing if we choose to listen to its message.
— Vironika Tugaleva
In suffering, the soul is stretch to find its full strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
— Richard Rohr
Life is an enduring faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.
— Marty Rubin
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
— James Patrick McDonald
Suffering is when we resist the moment.
— Kamal Ravikant
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
— Hermann Hesse
Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?
— Wesley J. Smith
If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.
— Matthew Donnelly
Sufferings lead a man to his soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
— Stephen Richards
When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
— Stephen Richards
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
— Stephen Richards
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
— Stephen Richards
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.
— Sharon Salzberg