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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ― C.S. Lewis
Famous Sayings About Life
Possibility
Suffering
Existence
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. — Helen Keller
Work Quotes
Developed
Achieved
Suffering
Strengthened
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
― Ernest Hemingway
Brave
Suffering
Ernest Hemingway
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
― Eugene H. Peterson
LifeChanging
Suffering
Pity
Eugene H. Peterson
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
― Edgar Allan Poe
Attachment
Suffering
Desire
Edgar Allan Poe
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
― Willie Nelson
Suffering
Purpose
Causes
Willie Nelson
A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.
― Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Giving
Suffering
Religion
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
― William Penn
Suffering
Inquiry
Blind
William Penn
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
― William Penn
Truth
Freedom
Suffering
William Penn
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
― William S. Burroughs
Goal
Suffering
Facts
William S. Burroughs
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
― William Shakespeare
Suffering
Littles
Enjoy
William Shakespeare
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
― Leo Buscaglia
Courage
Risk
Suffering
Leo Buscaglia
You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.
― Ken Keyes Jr.
Giving
Suffering
World
Ken Keyes Jr.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
― Thich Nhat Hanh (Thích Nhất Hạnh)
Nhat Hanh
Uplifting
Thinking
Suffering
This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
― Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
Suffering
Spirit
Kind
It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
― Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
Suffering
Encounters
Existentialism
You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
― Veronica Lake
Veronica Lake
Eye
Suffering
Vision
The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.
― Vernon Howard
Vernon Howard
People
Suffering
World
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
― Karl Marx
Thinking
Suffering
Thinker
Karl Marx
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?
― Stephen Hawking
Animal
Suffering
Euthanasia
Stephen Hawking
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