The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you... — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.” — Daisy Ashford Copy Share Image
Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
“Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are… — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
A Pitiful person who is afraid of taking risks, will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps he won't suffer the way people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered,” Katie says, “but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“After the first week, I found I could trick my troubled mind into much-needed sleep. My method was to ask a question… — Mark Canter Copy Share Image
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“But no matter how much pain one can feel and no matter how much hardship one may have to endure, life always… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“To the lost, transfixed among the self-inflicted ruins, All that is non-air (if this indeed is not deception) Is agony immobilized. While… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
No young man, no matter how great, can know his destiny. He cannot glimpse his part in the great story that is… — Kilgharrah Copy Share Image
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering. — Bob Phillips Copy Share Image
“Dukkha is not the self-inflicted stress of a technology executive; it’s the real stuff, the kind of suffering that merits the Pali… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tears have come and tears have gone, my immotinal torment still lives on, the scars right here upon my wrist are what… — Ana Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation. — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“You don’t really know who you are until you have gone through suffering. We can measure our spiritual growth by the way… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“But I wouldn’t sit in my room, couldn’t allow myself to mourn and mope and weep and sleep. So I would venture… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
