3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.

Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don’t reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.

Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.

When you grieve, that's all you tend to see. You must move through this time of suffering, strengthening your faith and being willing to grow. As you grow you'll find that your blind faith will continue to open your eyes.

Suffering drives progress.- The source of all suffering is the desire for a change in state. This is also the source of all progress. The desire to change your state is what powers you to take action.With craving, we are dissatisfied but driven. Without craving, we are satisfied but lack ambition.

Expectations are like tall buildings with no stairs or elevators. People pelt you into high floors but there is no way to come down. You try to keep living there and suffer.

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

One should get as much pleasure from spending money as one gets from earning it. But at that time, one says, ‘I spent too much money!