There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
John O'Donohue
Related Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words? DASHANNE STOKES How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. T... BEVERLY ENGEL What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamenta... BUDDHA Don’t throw away your suffering. Touch your suffering. Face it directly, and your joy will become ... THICH NHAT HANH Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and ... CHRIS KRAUS What you say is what you become, be careful with your words SOTONYE ANGA Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. ... SHAHLA KHAN Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh... DAN MILLMAN Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh... DAN MILLMAN Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y... MARCEL DUCHAMP Pain and suffering makes you realise what is life. KOWSALAPATHY A word missing from the dictionary:
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When the heart, spirit, mind are in great sadness ... ZEN GRAND MASTER ZEN May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the sufferi... RACHEL K. KIDDER Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss o... MOTHER TERESA I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... No one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffe... INIO ASANO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you... ELIZABETH GILBERT When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they... GARY F EVANS... I wake up from dreams and go "Wow, put this down on paper." The whole thing is strange. You hear the... MICHAEL JACKSON What do you do when your words aren't enough? What do you do when your actions have no effect? What ... HUBERT MARTIN The feeling that we are all neglected and lonely but not so lonely that "others" do not see us in tr... ALBERT CAMUS Without pain,there would be no suffering,without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.To... ANGELINA JOLIE Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.... ANGELINA JOLIE Your life will always be the perfect classroom journey for you and every experience that shows up in... KIMBERLY GILES Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the mem... LEO SZILARD It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experienc... CHRISTINA ENEVOLDSEN When you pass hateful words from your mouth to others it is like passing gas - it stinks and no one ... ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER I always thought I wasn't afraid to die. No... no one is afraid of death itself. Your pain and suffe... INIO ASANO This pastor is so progressive to embrace this poetry. Once you hear the words, it makes you think --... MARCUS SIBLEY what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is h... MARK TWAIN Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering... CHRIS CLEAVE The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what co... TIMOTHY J. KELLER Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal... GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Pain and evil confront us as a surd. Suffering, our own and that of others, is an experience through... KALLISTOS WARE The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we o... ALARIC HUTCHINSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others w... ERIC FISCHL Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that y... YOKO ONO Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Cho... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Your pain is our pain, your suffering is our suffering, ... Switzerland wants to see cause and respo... MORITZ LEUENBERGER You do not need to be temperamental or upset to be a novelist. Don’t embrace the tortured artist r... BRYANT A. LONEY You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given and received, that is when the... DAVID LEVITHAN If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are... SUZANNE COLLINS In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other... ECKHART TOLLE Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understan... DELTA GOODREM It's terrible to go through and have but you stick by them and your love for them is what gets you t... CATHY PARSONS The Words You Say Will Influence Your Clients Today, So Choose Your Words Wisely... Negative or Posi... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That ins... THICH NHAT HANH Feast of the Holy Cross When you hear someone saying unworthy and hard words of you, then it is g... THOMAS À KEMPIS Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the v... JEFF BUCKLEY The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pra... BRYANT MCGILL What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing... LISA CYPERS KAMEN 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the w... MIGUEL RUIZ When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th... CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori... TOMOKO HAYAKAWA When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight. THICH NHAT HANH Your heart always know the reason for your suffering. Take immediate action to stop you from sufferi... ARVIND MEHTA A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend. VIKRANT PARSAI Whenever you’ll open your eyes, you will find nothing but ugliness and misery all around you. Ever... OSHO Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G... HENRI NOUWEN Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a... DON MIGUEL RUIZ Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that? Please try to describe the picture as ... DEYTH BANGER Lonely soul, I'm thinking of you. You are not alone. Lonely soul, close your eyes and everything wil... ROSA M. BETANCES What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT [D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, l... STEPHEN LEVINE The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards
and start suffering... BRIAN TRACY Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible... YODA The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this w... MEGAN DEVINE It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety ... FLANN O'BRIEN In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and ... AL-GHAZALI I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, ... GEORGES BERNANOS Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions. KAREN HANDEL Your future harvest is a result of the seeds that you have sown through your actions and your words. JOHN DI LEMME The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written ... ANDREW CLEMENTS Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in tran... OLIVER GASPIRTZ Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through t... SUZY KASSEM Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, &... KURT COBAIN — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. — Who knows it better? — Yet you believ... ALAN PATON Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your... KATHLEEN KENNEDY The first step is to distinguish the loving parts of your personality that are active from the frigh... GARY ZUKAV Never let the words of discouragement from others sway you away from reaching far with your dreams. ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There is nothing to trust seeking happiness from outside, you will only become exhausted with suffer... DALAI LAMA You want to protect your child from pain, and what you get instead is life, and grace; and though th... ANNE LAMOTT It's hard to fathom what this means unless you're a parent, and if you are a parent, there aren't an... BILL POLIAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hanger... FRANK BRUNO To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer t... MARTHA BECK Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is. MICHAEL KEATON You said that you are ill... but from from what? DEYTH BANGER When you have been through and suffered pain constantly you see and notice the pain that others go t... GARY F EVANS... Words are powerful. They program the brain, affect moods and emotions, motivate and limit our behavi... TERENCE T. GORSKI Pain by itself made from words which have gone to action, by itself is unsolveable problem. DEYTH BANGER
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When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer... TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war. TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y... TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s... TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem... TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,... TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ... TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d... TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w... TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and... TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending. TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN