#suffer

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#suffering #art

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence

Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home and base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes. ↗

— Laura Munson

#freedom #happiness #suffering #freedom

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering. ↗

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

#compassion #demonstrate #face #human #human suffering

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#bush #election #ever #george #george bush

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#equals #fact #hard #man #our

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #cannot #consequences #food #into

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it. ↗

— James Norman Hall

#decays #suffers

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#immense #italy #losing #reverse #seen

I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#baltimore #being #being honest #beloved #better