She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
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Related It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.... JOHN GREEN Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. Bolívar was talking about ... JOHN GREEN It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. JOHN GREEN Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried abou... JOHN GREEN Suffering is universal. It's the only thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about... JOHN GREEN Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ... JOHN GREEN It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life m... JULIAN BAGGINI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Dad?" Jesus asked. "Yes, son?" God asked. "Why do people get sick?" Jesus asked. "Whe... ANTHONY T. HINCKS How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ? JOHN GREEN You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That ins... THICH NHAT HANH — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi. — Who knows it better? — Yet you believ... ALAN PATON He—that's Simon Bolivar—was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between... JOHN GREEN You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. RALPH WALDO EMERSON You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. JOHN GREEN The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive JOHN GREEN How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? JOHN GREEN How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? JOHN GREEN Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying g... PAUL KALANITHI One of the main arguments that I make is that although almost everyone accepts that it is morally wr... GARY L. FRANCIONE You can do the right thing that seems wrong to others, or the wrong thing that seems right, and its ... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The universe never complains. When you're wrong or right, She always loves and cares, DEBASISH MRIDHA I said, somewhat confused, “What’s the problem?” [Kristy] rolled her eyes. Beside her, Mo... SARAH DESSEN You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a die... PORTIA DE ROSSI Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person trigge... THICH NHAT HANH The cross is not the suffering tied to being natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Chri... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and w... DANIEL BOULUD Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have ... THICH NHAT HANH I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's c... PETER SINGER It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tel... SHARON SALZBERG She was really encouraging and she went out of her way to tell you, 'Good job' when you did a good j... ANDEE WHITAKER My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood. Dracula was dead. Rex was dyin... PATRICK JENNINGS In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and ... AL-GHAZALI Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any att... MARK MANSON The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong. BACKMAN This [event] is not about the training or road races leading up to marathon day, but about the drive... LAURA BAILEY Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come in... JOSEPH LEWIS Some people think life is all about suffering, and suffering means living life. So many people live ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are h... MARC BEKOFF The World "You know the saddest thing," she said. "The saddest thing is that we're you."<... NEIL GAIMAN To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegia... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong ... PHILIP ROTH Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good fo... JEANNETTE WALLS When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something a... FRANK R. WOLF at first I thought you were just using me" she said "I definitely am." I just wasn't sure for w... PAUL NEILAN With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates tha... CRISS JAMI How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, you... SHANNON K. BUTCHER I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM So, what are you doing tonight?" Me?" Janie laughs. "Homework, of course." You want compan... LISA MCMANN It’s sloppy theology to think that all suffering is good for us, or that it’s a result of sin. A... SHAUNA NIEQUIST Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering ... RODRIGO DUTERTE 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 She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer... LEO TOLSTOY What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamenta... BUDDHA We are all going,” McKinley said to his wife, and we sure are. There’s your labyrinth of sufferi... JOHN GREEN So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to fin... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It... JOHN CONNOLLY One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Do you trust me?" She could still hear him, through flesh and noise. "I love you!" she sho... DAWN METCALF How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'... ROBERT B. PARKER The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire ... JOHN GREEN He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was ... KURT VONNEGUT Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve s... DAVID D. BURNS … you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was... TERRY PRATCHETT No person can escape the germs of their eventual deterioration and destruction. A round-table of phy... KILROY J. OLDSTER Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering JANE ROBERTS He sighed heavily. "You pissed me off." Well, that was totally unexpected....sort of. "Hey... R.L. MATHEWSON There is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in the world whatsoever. It is just the impurit... DADA BHAGWAN Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss o... MOTHER TERESA The trouble is I'm not very good at trusting my own instincts. I've been wrong before. A lot." ... HARRIET EVANS Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do y... JODI PICOULT I can't control what happens on the outside but I can learn to control what happens on the inside. W... AKIROQ BROST All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good eno... ANON. The problem is that contemporary people think life is all about finding happiness. We decide what co... TIMOTHY J. KELLER but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was... PAULO COELHO There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze. JOHN GREEN Hell is not a place of eternal suffering, but the knowledge of causing pain to one you love SAMUEL LIBERATORE but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit ... W. CLEMENT STONE life is not about actions..we take actions whether wrong or right its all about consequences..some a... ROHISH KAURA People referred to the symbolism of the empty Cross more than once on its journey. It would seem obv... CHRIS RYAN MGL At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, God, faces and suff... MARK LEWIS TAYLOR Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not d... DADA BHAGWAN Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE Wrong? So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ... DEYTH BANGER Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass. "W... SHERRILYN KENYON Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime,... WHITTAKER CHAMBERS My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life tha... SAM SHEPARD Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons. AMELIE MAURESMO Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the s... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te... APURVA GAGLANI Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What ... DAVID MICHIE Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble o... JAMES HILLMAN It's an issue of patient safety. We're not talking about Viagra and narcotics abuse. We are talking ... ANDY TROSZOK
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