We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Until we heal the root cause of our suffering, and awaken to our true nature, our inherent confusion will continue to manifest… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Many people today in the developed countries are so far removed from poverty and suffering and starvation that they lack empathy for… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a… — Anita Amirrezvani Copy Share Image
There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
“Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their… — Josephine Bakhita Copy Share Image
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Not only do we suffer from racism and sexism, but we also suffer from ageism. And that is that once you reach… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“Was it a strain so heavy that L's back curved under all its weight? Was it an agony so terrible as to… — M Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I've always said that liberalism is one of the most gutless choices you can make. All you have to do to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much. — Claire Wineland Copy Share Image
We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn… — Simone Campbell Copy Share Image
We need our children in Jamaica - especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy - to get more attention. — Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike. — Paul Brand Copy Share Image
God didn't promise a life without, pain, struggles and hardships, but He did promise He will give you the strength to get… — Maria Micah Rosales Copy Share Image
Love, like all living things, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
“I knew it would be hard when I promised you my best," he said, drying my tears in turn. I'd been naive… — L.R.W. Lee Copy Share Image
I'm always curious to see how a fighter responds after suffering a first loss. I'm especially curious when that first loss is… — Ariel Helwani Copy Share Image
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give,… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“Where one’s existence becomes established in the [Real] Self (swaroop sthiti), there the inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] stops.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss… — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
“He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made… — Amanda Coplin Copy Share Image
“what? people exploit your gullibility? let them. remember, the more people cut off leaves of a tree, the much faster it grows.” — Pravin Gupta Copy Share Image
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned… — James B. Weaver Copy Share Image
“In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and… — President Barack Obama Copy Share Image