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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

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something. — Kamal Ravikant

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain. — Karl Marx

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

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes. — Anais Nin

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

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender. — Paulo Coelho

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

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. — Mahavira

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

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside. — Frida Kahlo

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

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena. — Dalai Lama

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

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides. — Martha Beck

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation — Vivian Amis

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

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon? — Shantideva

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

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. — Patanjali

The undisciplined mind confuses misfortune with mistakes. — Mark Caney

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

To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us. — Allan Lokos

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