Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice..
That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer..
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes..
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand..
The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson..
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness..
Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin..
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them..
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation..
It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awak….
I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?.
My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering..
Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word ….
Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I..
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 worth….
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much..
The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they do….
I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing tha….
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind..
Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own hap….
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive….