The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Experiencing the intense pangs of grief, it is so difficult to trust that we can be whole without that person or thing… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“My little beast, my eyes, my favorite stolen egg. Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Samo si mene imao, osim onih grobova kod kuće, sad više nikog nemamo ni ti ni ja, ti si mene izgubio prije… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies,… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
Labor, like Israel, has many sorrows. Its women weep for their fallen and they lament for the future of the children of… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
“My goodness, I am made from planets and wood, diamonds and orange peels, now and then, here and there; the iron in… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
When you first start to practice positive thinking, tell no one, go to it realistically, stop dwelling on your difficulties, your sorrows.… — Albert E Cliffe Copy Share Image
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass.… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Good Friday is a day of mourning, and all the ceremonies and rituals of the day are centered on the feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
…Faith forged in the furnace of trials and tears is marked by trust and testimony. Only God can count the sacrifice; only… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
You ask me whether I am in good spirits. How could I not be so? As long as Faith gives me strength… — Pier Giorgio Frassati Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain,… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She is an immense presence in the world. Tragedy and strength have so perfectly coalesced in her, as if one fed off… — Barbara Bode Copy Share Image
We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts… — R. L. Hymers, Jr Copy Share Image
