Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he… — Gautama Buddha 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
Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The GAVI Alliance has achieved many things in its first dozen years, but none more important than helping save more than 5.5… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Job’s sickness and afflictions didn’t build his character; they revealed the character he already had.” — Praying Medic Copy Share Image
“Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
For a while after my daughter was born I was at war with God. There's a lot of psychological stuff you deal… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In restaurants across America we see Latino workers in the kitchen who are being paid substandard wages. The saddest thing to me… — Bryant Terry Copy Share Image
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute. — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive. — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before. — Shinzo Abe 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
“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
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
“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
“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
Suffering dispels the illusion that we have the strength and competence to rule our own lives and save ourselves. — Timothy Keller 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
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
“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
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable. — Ajahn Sumedho 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
Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68) — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
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