Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand,… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The next time I find myself getting upset over something petty, I'll remember the ones who are really suffering in this world.… — Laleh Javaheri Copy Share Image
“i thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, i thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they… — John Locke Copy Share Image
We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no… — George Scratchley Brown Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering,… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“My journey was never just about survival; it was about creating a future where no one has to endure the same suffering” — Hagir Elsheikh Copy Share Image
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is difficult to not let the circumstances define you when everyone feels they know your personal struggles and agony. — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
In talking about my cancer with family and friends, I feel the love that I know will get me through this. The… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The real problem is that this devaluing of lament often betrays our failure to admit that our suffering is real and painful.… — Kelly M. Kapic Copy Share Image
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true.… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image