#suffering

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#indifferent #only #own #suffering #thing

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought. ↗

— Mary Lyon

#much #nine-tenths #others #ought #our

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#been #countries #deliberately #designed #fled

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#others #our #own #resignation #suffering

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#city #does #fans #film #friendship

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#benefits #coming #greatly #human #human suffering

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#fears #man #suffering #who

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. ↗

— Robert Orben

#back #before #ever #more #payments

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#awareness #capitalists #collusion #commit #country

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ↗

— Plato

#any #because #censured #doing #fear