I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we… — Kim Eng Copy Share Image
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that… — Margaret Junkin Preston Copy Share Image
While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
“I remembered a line I read in the Dalai Lama’s book A Profound Mind. “It is important that we understand just how… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Putin's survival depends on land grabs of foreign territories. He needs new annexations. The annexation of Crimea has gained him much applause… — Arseniy Yatsenyuk Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?'… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When I was young, my knowledge of the literary world was a distorted tabloid sketch of dazzling fame, suffering genius, and tragic… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
“Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, “She must be suffering because of some sin she committed”; Jesus, who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“our version of the same event is also likely to be a reflection upon our own situation and suffering rather than a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
“When you are around people who are really suffering, you get to experience some of their suffering and that can make you… — Art Hochberg Copy Share Image
The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering. — Sean Strub Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy,why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I’m not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn’t have a reason.… — Lisa Tucker Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies. — Arthur Murray Copy Share Image
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“[...]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
![“If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.” quote by Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/526/dada-bhagwan-31_help_if-you-met-the-robbers-and-they-robbed-y_370577.jpg)
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