#suffer

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#faith #suffering #trials #faith

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? ↗

— Śāntideva

#buddhism #desire #suffering #anger

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#mindfulness #psychology #suffering #art

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb. ↗

— Josh Billings

#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. ↗

— Josh Billings

#between #difference #enjoy #misery #only

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#get #joblessness #jobs #most #often

Suffering does not discriminate. ↗

— Shania Twain

#does #suffering

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#enjoy #enjoying #i #suffer #very

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#christ #cross #endure #exclusive #fruit