#suffering

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

#chocolate #joy #pleasures #suffering #think

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#real #suffering #terrorists #torture

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

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

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

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

— Henny Youngman

#interferes #jews #suffering #their #why