Pastoral Resources

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

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.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience 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.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

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.

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.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

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

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

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

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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.

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

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.