They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering. — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Everything has a beginning and an end, pain and does pleasure. Dont anticipate and dont regret, and there will be no pain.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“When we are caught in notions, rituals, and the outer forms of the practice, not only can we not receive and embody… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
A great number of those working for liberal causes are not only shy but borderline collusive. They want change to happen nicely,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
“Thanks be to God, Who gives us suffering as sacred remedy for all our sins, that best and purest essence which prepares… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If we are free from attachment, we can easily recognize ourselves in other people, in different forms of manifestation, and then we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead… — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at… — Jean-Paul Sarte Copy Share Image
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunateit's just been an amazing piece of luck. I haven't had to suffer for my art but I've suffered… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sometimes its not the pain that makes you suffer, its your own negative thought that makes things seem worst. — Melania Copy Share Image
Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no… — Ivana Trump Copy Share Image
I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“However oppressed by my own or others' anguish, I am not to forget that there is more in the world than this,… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We must continue to address the fact that working people and communities already suffering the most from inequality were hit the hardest… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
It is not just that animals make the world more scenic or picturesque. The lives of animals are woven into our very… — Gary A. Kowalski Copy Share Image
“Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.” — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
