From Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Tag Archives: suffering
Quote of the day 09/18/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, butfor the heart to conquer it.”
Quote of the day 06/08/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.”
Quote of the day 06/05/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “The stopping of suffering is disappearance of desire, the ending of ideas, the giving up of, letting go of, liberation from, and refusal to dwell in the object of desire.”
Quote of the day 06/03/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “Without suffering, you cannot grow. Without suffering, you cannot get the peace and joy you deserve.”
Quote of the day 04/20/24
From William Faulkner: “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Quote of the day 02/07/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.”
Quote of the day 01/22/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
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