If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible” — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way… — Jill Greenberg Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“Three months of prison and torture! It’s a terrible ordeal! But for others, it lasts ten years, twenty years! It kills some!”… — Phakyab RINPOCHE Copy Share Image
Grief, when it comes, is nothing we expect it to be. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“1–2. Job speaks. At the conclusion of the epilogue, we heard that Job sat in silence with his three friends for seven… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in… — Paul P. Enns Copy Share Image
No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some in Church history have felt the deep agony of the lostness of men around them and shared the heart of God… — St. Thomas Church Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer… — Gertrude Diamant Copy Share Image
In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
My aim in helping the patient was not to cause death. My aim was to end suffering. It's got to be decriminalized. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“That morning set in motion a series of events that caused me to wrestle with questions of God’s goodness.” — K. Howard Joslin Copy Share Image
“May you see the light through the darkness, wisdom through the pain and strength through the suffering.” — Rachel K Kidder Copy Share Image
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting.… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Listen to me, young Hardy. A day will come for you when play becomes torment. When you are drowning, not in water… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“And if God is a suffering God, if this whole universe is borne on a heart infinite in compassion, then the more… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“They’ll ask you, child, what you know of suffering. They’ll ask you where it hurts the most, when the pain changes like… — Kwame Opoku-Duku Copy Share Image
Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“We often go astray, seeking our own way, until the the sacred moment of suffering, then we find grace to cry out… — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and… — Bible Copy Share Image
