“There is nothing which is worth ‘doing’ and any attempt to ‘do’ anything, increases bondage.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering. — Jeremy Gilley Copy Share Image
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering. — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons. — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering… — Summer Walker Copy Share Image
The real first kiss is the one that tells you what it feels like to be an adult and doesn't let you… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Suffering offers a path to awareness. Awareness allows us to be truly born. When one is born, one is able to then… — VD Copy Share Image
It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The problem of unmet expectations in marriage is primarily a problem of stereotyping. Each and every human being on this planet is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk) — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.” — Timothy W. Tron Copy Share Image
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts. — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings! — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reversed. A palindrome: gut-tug.” — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.” — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. — Antonio Porchia Copy Share Image
