“We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
...a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. — Paul Yingling Copy Share Image
We've got to do more to help these veterans who are suffering from brain injuries and PTSD. — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. — Sean Stephenson Copy Share Image
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from… — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Adri has seen war, she’s seen suffering, but you never get used to it. You never know what to say to a… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon… — Timothy Keller (Author Copy Share Image
“A gem, like you, is made beautiful by being polished. It's not an easy undertaking, but a stone that exists undisturbed among… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse, and I can only dream that one day she will recapture her glory.… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The hardship, the pain, the suffering of my brother and my son in prison, that's absolutely their experience, that's not mine. I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
