The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else.… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good… — Alan Heathcock Copy Share Image
We have found ways . . . to torture and maim animals and make their lives a misery, almost a living hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Some Of The Difficult Moments In Life Is,,, Giving Someone A Hug When You Need It The Most. Fighting Back The Tears… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
They didn't need to be specifically South American or Latin American. Instead we discovered we were talking about human beings in general.… — Alex Abreu Copy Share Image
“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“There's actually a sort of comfort in the belief that things can only get worse. It gives one an appreciation for the… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
“It is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) to complain and cry about one’s own misery and it is raudradhyan (wrathful… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care,… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with.… — Pamela Yates Copy Share Image
I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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