Agatha Christie Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.

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Whether we like it or not, we have all been born into this world as part of one great human family. Rich or poor, educated or uneducated, belonging to one nation or another, to one religion or another, adhering to this ideology or that, ultimately each of is just a human being like everyone else. We all desire happiness and do not want suffering.

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It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.

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Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

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I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

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Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

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I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

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I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

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Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

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Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

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To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

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All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

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