Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we… — Lesley Hazleton Copy Share Image
Until Jesus comes, his resurrection glory in the church is a matter of strength made perfect in suffering. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“Rain fell on the roofs of the just and the unjust, the saints and the sinners, those who knew peace and those… — Robert McCammon Copy Share Image
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Child pornography is taboo. There are really no such things as snuff films. That's a legend. But movies are like pieces of… — John Carpenter Copy Share Image
“The most wonderful things in life will be difficult. There is so shortcut, no easy way out. Success will be grueling. But… — Ally Peters Copy Share Image
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
You only have so much time in the day. At the end of the day, you don't want to see the thing… — Nick Lachey Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Have mercy on me, my Soul. You have shown me Beauty, But then concealed her. You and Beauty live in the light;… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today. — George Mikes Copy Share Image
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I may know pain and suffering more than happiness and smiling but when I love, I love with my whole heart you… — Noxolo Zulu Copy Share Image
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the sea is that it never shows any weakness and never tires of the countless souls that unleash their… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“It takes great courage to open one's heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world.” — Vincent A. Gallagher Copy Share Image
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB. — Ian Ziering Copy Share Image
You look the conflict with your ego & i look the same conflict with thought.Your ego never gives me a second chance..we… — Gopichand Lagadapati Copy Share Image
“Come to me once more, and abate my torment; Take the bitter care from my mind, and give me All I long… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all.… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.” — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
