Miguel Angel Ruiz
Author, Spiritual Teacher
"What others say and do is a projection of their own reality."
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Suffering Of Others
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Joy Bryant
Actress, Model
"Being involved with Oxfam has really opened my eyes to the world at large and the suffering of others. But my background and my life experience are what have allowed me to understand how interconnected we all are. I believe one person suffering reverberates throughout the world."
Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet 'for sale', who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society."
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Author, Spiritual Teacher
"When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
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"Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others."
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"The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being"
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"Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horros in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them"
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"It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks."
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"Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism."
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"... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them."
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"The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others."
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"I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles."
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"I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
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"There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on."
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"At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful."
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