#suffer

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ↗

— Dan Millman

#resistance #stress #suffering #life

Suffering teaches joy. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

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The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#suffering #life

When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice. ↗

— Paul E. Miller

#poet #prayer #story #suffering #life

May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them. ↗

— Scott Cairns

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Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74) ↗

— Donald Rothberg

#life

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#colonial #domestically #enough #helpless #history

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#evils #expand #freedom #i #me

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. ↗

— Pele

#accidental #come #hard #i #injuries

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. ↗

— Plato

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