3,815 Quotes About Suffering

I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if a person does not have Self-realization, new ones will be charged within.

Poverty is at least a trillion times more likely than wealth to make one wonder what the purpose of life is.

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

I can see three ways to a truly compassionate fatherhood: grief, forgiveness, and generosity. Grief is the discipline of the heart that sees the sin of the world, and knows itself to be the sorrowful price of freedom without which love cannot bloom. I am beginning to see that much of praying is grieving. Grief allows me to see beyond my wall and realize the immense suffering that results from human lostness.

Some people are way less tortured by poverty than some are tormented by wealth.

I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite my mortal disposition, I possess my voice. I have that which is gifted to me from the bosom of the gods. The beauty of self-expression. And through this gift I will come to know and share the true nature of reality

A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.