The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we're suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.
Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.
It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.
South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
