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I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.

Quotes by Maria Bamford

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

Quotes by Margaret Trudeau

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

Quotes by Margaret Cavendish

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Quotes by Marcus Garvey

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Quotes by Marcel Proust

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Quotes by Marcel Proust

I think doctors are really suffering now. They're suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.

Quotes by Marcia Angell

When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

Quotes by Marcia Angell

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

Quotes by Malcolm Turnbull

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Quotes by Mahmoud Abbas

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Quotes by Madame de Stael

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Quotes by Lysette Anthony

Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now.

Quotes by Lynn Nottage

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Quotes by Lydia M. Child

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.

Quotes by Luol Deng

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Quotes by Lucy Stone

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Quotes by Louise L. Hay

BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not trying to determine who should live or die. Everyone has a right to life without suffering.

Quotes by Liz Parrish

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Quotes by Liz Smith

All of Obamacare has resulted in human suffering.

Quotes by Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.

Quotes by Lionel Shriver

It's always difficult to say goodbye, especially when one has spent a long time - literally years, in the case of a series - inside a character or two, suffering and celebrating with them.

Quotes by Lilith Saintcrow

Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.

Quotes by Leopoldo Lopez

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Quotes by Leon Kass

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Leo Tolstoy

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Leo Tolstoy

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

Quotes by Lee Strobel

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

Quotes by Lee Strobel

When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

Quotes by Lee Strobel

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

Quotes by Lee Strobel

There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?

Quotes by Lee Hyeon-seo

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Quotes by Layne Staley

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

Quotes by Layne Staley

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

Quotes by Laurie Anderson

When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

Quotes by Lauren Ashley Carter

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

Quotes by Laura Hillenbrand

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Quotes by Lactantius

Raising money for research and for those suffering with cancer who can't afford treatment is very important to me.

Quotes by Kyle Richards

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

Quotes by Krzysztof Kieslowski

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Quotes by Kofi Annan

Having children, entering the realm of parents and parenthood, changes our relationship to the world in ways we could not have anticipated and might not have signed up for. Before I had children, for example, I believed strongly in the nobility of suffering.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

When I read stories of suffering, I still feel something. It seems inhuman not to. At the same time, I'm more aware than ever of how little my feeling is worth, of how - if we are to truly keep alive the conditions that make ethical life possible - it is not empathy that's needed but insight, organization, and action.

Quotes by Kim Brooks

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

Quotes by Kevin Sorbo

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

Quotes by Kevin Rollins

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.

Quotes by Kevin Rudd

As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.

Quotes by Kevin DeYoung

Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.

Quotes by Kent Brantly

Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn't make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That's not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.

Quotes by Kent Brantly

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Quotes by Kenneth Scott Latourette

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Quotes by Kelsang Gyatso

Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.

Quotes by Kelsang Gyatso

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Quotes by Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

Quotes by Kathe Kollwitz

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

Quotes by Karen Armstrong

Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.

Quotes by Karamo Brown

In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

Quotes by Junichiro Koizumi

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

Quotes by Julius Gordon

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.

Quotes by Julie Christie

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Quotes by Jules Renard

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

Quotes by Judith Jamison

If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.

Quotes by Juan Guaido

I definitely pride myself on suffering through a real high school. A lot of my friends are homeschooled, and I love them for it, but I really wanted that high school experience.

Quotes by Josie Totah

Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.

Quotes by Josh Fox

The only thing I've ever wanted to do is play professional football, and be a professional quarterback, so now that it's here and it's getting close, it's just kind of making all that pain and suffering and waiting and working hard worth it.

Quotes by Josh Allen

We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

Quotes by Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.

Quotes by Jose Marti

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada

From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.

Quotes by Jonathan Van Ness

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Quotes by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Quotes by Johnny Knoxville

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Quotes by John Ruskin

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

Quotes by John Prendergast

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Quotes by John Piper

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

Quotes by John Kani

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

Quotes by John Forbes Nash, Jr.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

Quotes by John Cornwell

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

Quotes by John Coltrane

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

Quotes by John Conyers

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Quotes by John Ciardi

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

Quotes by John Cleese

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Quotes by John Calvin

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

Quotes by John Bercow

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

Quotes by Johan Cruyff

In my heart, I know that Jesus would never condone the suffering that results when dogs and cats are allowed to breed.

Quotes by Joanna Krupa

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Quotes by Joan Halifax

Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.

Quotes by Jim Nantz

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.

Quotes by Jim McDermott

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.

Quotes by Jim Diamond

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Quotes by Jim Caviezel

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

Quotes by Jill Greenberg

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