There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet,… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
When football stars disappear, so do the teams, and that is a very curious phenomenon. It is like in the theatre, in… — Pele Copy Share Image
God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il. — Ed Royce Copy Share Image
Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man too careful of danger liveth in continual torment, But a cheerful expecter of the best hath a fountain of joy… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Being in love doesn't mean you have to sit there and suffer through the pain, hurt and tears.. if it doesn't feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The suffering of being imprisoned rests in the fact that it is impossible, at any time, to escape from oneself.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life,… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The thing most disabled people cite when they are seriously or terminally ill is not the pain, not the suffering - it's… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. — Carlton Fisk Copy Share Image
I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
There are but two future verbs which man may appropriate confidently and without pride: "I shall suffer," and "I shall die. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering—no matter what you may think of them and their supposed… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
