Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The application of their rules routinely produces immense amounts of suffering and even threatens to breakdown solid marriages as well.[96] Their sense… — Aaron Milavec Copy Share Image
Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Every man or woman who loves, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
There is an overabundance of rational reasons to say no to factory-farmed meat: It is the No. 1 cause of global warming,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX… — Malachi Martin Copy Share Image
“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve. As an elected official,… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
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“No, what one wanted, really, was the city or anyone in it to see how one suffered. Of course, this being New… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He was his usual philosophic self and tried very hard to explain to me that although life was stained with agony, this… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
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To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings.… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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Through the pain is always suffering and after the suffering is a rainbow full of colors and many stars to match and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In meditation, we commit to reality by renouncing our escape plans. We will not stop running away from our suffering until we… — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
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