Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now my soul is incarnate in my country, My body has swallowed her soul, And I and my country are one. My… — Adam Mickiewicz Copy Share Image
Tha person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Life does not personally punish people or seek to cause suffering; it simply moves. It is only when we claim life should… — HeatherAsh Amara Copy Share Image
You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a… — Esther Smith Copy Share Image
Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
“The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings;… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
“In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
... we know that productivity suffers when uncertainty is high. But we've failed to realize the equally destructive effects of too little… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
What else is it that should trace the insuperable line? Is it the faculty of reason or perhaps the faculty of discourse?… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
By ourselves we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful. — Max De Pree Copy Share Image
If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it. — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Copy Share Image
Just because I am strong enough to handle pain, doesn't mean I deserve it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering? — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself. For your pain caused others to realize the reality of life. — Nayely Saldana Copy Share Image
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
![“You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.” quote by Matthieu Ricard](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/c46/matthieu-ricard-4004_add_you-get-something-in-your-body-that-is-t_1158842.jpg)
