#suffering

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#culture #each #had #killing #lack

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #appear #dealing #deepest #family

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#christ #christianity #contrast #declares #eternal

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#nothing #one thing #only #opium #physical

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. ↗

— Jose Marti

#contribute #created #evil #free #human

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. ↗

— Karl Marx

#mental #only #pain #physical #physical pain

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#others #our #own #resignation #suffering