Suffering… is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.
– Michael Pollan
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- Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. – Chuck Palahniuk
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- All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. – Tom Robbins
- Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. – Sylvain Reynard
- Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. – Noah Levine
- A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man. – Aminatta Forna
- If there is one thing worse than self-pity, it was other people’s pity. – CJ Duggan
- When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you’ll send her away very soon. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions. – Courtney Kirchoff
- Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality. – Kilroy J Oldster
- I am forever yearning for ice cream.And cats. Lots and lots of cats. – Noor Ashour
- Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last.Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering. – Aram Seriteratai
- Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again. – Michael Pollan
- We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived. – Billy Graham
- Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself. – Shai Tubali
- In times of suffering, don’t turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus. – Crystal Mary Lindsey
- What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings. – Idries Shah
- It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation. – Pascal Mercier
- Don’t pity this sinful world!Just pity those who made it so! – Toba Beta
- Pity. What a useless emotion when you don’t act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion. – Lish McBride
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- Those who nurse secrets, nurse a chaotic world of amplified silence. – BG Bowers
- Grief is always amplified in silence. – AJ Compton
- As you build trust in yourself, your ability to expand your vision and fully live in your magnificence is amplified. – Miranda J Barrett
- Our weaknesses as a worker are only amplified by being in leadership. – Miles Anthony Smith
- Curiosity is god’s greatest gift to man, but my gift is a little amplified. – Onaiza Khan
- Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. – Terry Tempest Williams
- What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering… – Friedrich Nietzsche
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- Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
- If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
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- Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct. – Debasish Mridha
- Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother’s love for her child. – Gloria Furman
- Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly. – Vinita Kinra
- It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. – Mark Twain
- Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different. – APJ Abdul Kalam