#suffering

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering. ↗

— Artur Davis

#course #flowery #give #hunger #inequality

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#god #later #laws #men #never

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #forcing #others #people #some

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#disguised #exhibited #expressed #feelings #general

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

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

#against #deprived #disgrace #himself #man

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#between #bliss #dividing #dividing line #eternity

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#cope #describe #difficult #entire #entire life