#suffer

Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering; there is some good or positive in this experience. ↗

— Louis Hoffman

#experience

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#suffering #family

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#suffering #art

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#hardship #suffering #suicide #home

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#food-for-thought #god #individual #instruction #israelmore-ayivor

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ↗

— John Green

#life #suffering #forgiveness

[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#letting-go #self-righteousness #suffering #forgiveness

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#forgiveness #malice #suffering #understanding #forgiveness

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves. ↗

— Mike Norton

#forgiveness #suffer #suffering #forgiveness

Could God have justified Himself before human history, so full of suffering, without placing Christ's Cross at the center of that history? . . . But God, who besides being Omnipotence is Wisdom and--to repeat once again--Love, desires to justify Himself to mankind. He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. he is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny. ↗

— John Paul II

#god #suffering #love