When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“When two people part who have loved each other it is as if what happens between them befell in a great emptiness… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
“You stole five cars. Instead of going into prison or juvenile detention, you endured nothing more than volunteer work. Now that you… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“There is sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) when not a single living being is ever hurt even to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“People who have never suffered in life have less empathy for others, little knowledge of their own shortcomings and limitations, no endurance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“To life in the consciousness of the inevitability of suffering, of becoming enfeebled, of old age and of death, is impossible --… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for… — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“I believe we have inherited a world of suffering that must be transcended through the development of pointed direction, fostering an evolution… — Albert Jackson Copy Share Image
Why did you refused to see?. How you and I supposed to be. Who among us the person in agony. If no… — Louaiq8 Copy Share Image
“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There is no need to subject people in capitalism to additional suffering; the point is to get them to recognize that the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering.… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and… — John Elof Boodin Copy Share Image
“The Path emphasizes that self-restraint, self-discipline, and the practice of mindfulness and meditation can help put an end to suffering.” — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
“There the traveller meets aghast Sheeted Memories of the Past— Shrouded forms that start and sigh As they pass the wanderer by—… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“I fear that we are often sleeping in the garden rather than watching with our Savior because the suffering is not ours.” — Diane Mandt Langberg Copy Share Image
“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
Most people suffer in love because of attachment. Attachment means we're interested in a net return on our investment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I would say that I am not that well-versed politically. I am just someone who wants to speak out about anyone who… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
“The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
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