Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

A sincere and warmly expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

To love life is to love all of life; the suffering, the joy, the pain, the magnificence...all of it!

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.