“At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
I went to the doctor on the advice of some people that work closely with me and found out that I was… — James Toney Copy Share Image
Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Our worries always come from our weaknesses...Strong people can always afford to be gentle, only the weak are intent on "GIVING UP… — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has been hospitalized. I believe he is suffering from homophobia. No, actually, it was just gallstones, but when… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“But instead of this peace which I dared to expect, what anguish has weighed down my days! To become the perpetual plaything… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born… — Edouard Bourdet Copy Share Image
Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.” — Arnold Arre Copy Share Image
Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken… — Harry Segall Copy Share Image
“And he howled in agony, in a pain that would never cease as long as he lived. His tortured voice echoed in… — Farrah Naseem Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...] — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Human makes the rules, human breaks the rules. Just in the middle of time in that others suffer for good or bad.” — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
“ROM8.18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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