Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the… — T. J. MacGregor Copy Share Image
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.” — Jim George Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
Toasted Heretic should have been cherished and helped, rather than ignored or sneered at, or put down as "quirky band with an… — Julian Gough Copy Share Image
“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to… — Cus D'Amato Copy Share Image
Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die.” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform,… — Leslie T. Chang Copy Share Image
In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures,… — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure,… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
“In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)” — Melissa Rose Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world — that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature —… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.” — Claire Holden Rothman Copy Share Image
What I did suffer when I was young was because I was sort of a hick coming into New York City. I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Any other illness and you have time off work, but there is a lot of stigma around mental illness. It's frightening to… — Zoe Ball Copy Share Image
We are not taught that hardship is the anvil upon which we are beaten into beauty. We are not taught that some… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
