#suffering

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #care #child #did #i

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#closer #creates #fragmentation #healthy #helps

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#beings #encourages #endure #helps #human

The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering. ↗

— Bill Williams

#boss #challenging #most #nobody #part

In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is to God’s child the token of the Father’s love, and the channel of His richest blessing. [. . .] Suffering is the way of the rent veil, the new and living way Jesus walked in and opened for us. ↗

— Andrew Murray

#holy-in-christ #suffering #faith

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it. ↗

— Frank R. Wolf

#about #dying #gives #hungry #job

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#infinity #nature #obscure #permanent #shares

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#delegates #destruction #experience #feelings #great

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#interferes #jews #suffering #their #why