#suffer

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#did #fear #i #self-doubt #simply

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#once #seriously #suffer #take #too

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#cases #doctor #duty #end #ending

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers. ↗

— Justin Theroux

#famous #good #good work #happens #i

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#alien #experiencing #fever #industrialists #inhabited

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. ↗

— Alice Walker

#confused #government #movements #much #now

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#experience #i #i think #important #important thing

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#gift #god #love #love is #passes

We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their neighbors. Lots of folks have put their hands over their ears to drown out the suffering. Institutions have distanced themselves from the disturbing cries.. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle. One of the verses I have grown to love is the one where Jesus is preparing to leave the disciples and says, "I no longer call you servants.... Instead, I have called you friends" (John 15:15). Servanthood is a fine place to begin, but gradually we move toward mutual love, genuine relationships. Someday, perhaps we can even say those words that Ruth said to Naomi after years of partnership: "Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried" (Ruth 1:16-17). ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#community #genuine-relationships #suffering #beauty

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life #pain #suffering #unhappiness #beauty