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Letter "S" » Suffering
«The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.»
«Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians»
«The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues»
«The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt»
«To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.»
«The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.»
«The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons.»
«The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.»
Author: Confucius | About: Suffering | Keywords: distressed, limitations, recognize, superior
«To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.»
«The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities»

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