#suffer

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#self #self-conciousness #suffering #alcohol

he who will not economize will have to agonize ↗

— Confucius

#ignorance #knowledge #suffering #wisdom #economics

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true... ↗

— John Geddes

#suffering #love

Dear God, I hurt. Please hold me. Amen ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hurting #prayer #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sadness

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#faith #god #prayer #sufferings #faith

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#him #how #i #little #man

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#boring #drink #i #i do #insufferable

Suffering is part of the divine idea. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#idea #part #suffering

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. ↗

— Tony Benn

#galloping #obsolescence #suffering #today

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#question #rather #reason #suffer #talk