The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it “shatters the myth that our own… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Women, especially in rural India, have to undergo such suffering and pain. It is important for our cinema to address their pain,… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human. — Willie D Copy Share Image
When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown. — Brad Hall Copy Share Image
Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But for a song like 'Paprika,' I typically feel like I need to experience anguish a lot of the time to feel… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished… — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The body is the subconscious made visible. To ignore its whispers is to mute the very core of human suffering.” — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those… — Max Martini Copy Share Image
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“Enduring suffering can become a gift because it is an opportunity for us to grow from who we are into who God… — Darci J. Steiner Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image