Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain indifferent to suffering in the world? This is not in keeping with the Way. Only those… — Laozi Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“I believe the ability to view the agony and discomfort of a miserable and painful situation as a character building and physically… — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and… — Bette Ford Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have… — Amanda Smith Copy Share Image
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in suffering” does not mean Christians should act happy about tragedy and pain when they feel like crying. Rather, the Bible… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“Nothing is altered and in spite of God’s mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Why d’you make me suffer?" “Because I love you.” Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t love… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“Whenever I’m at my darkest, I remember that there is goodness in the world. That there is pain and hardship and foolishness… — Liam Pieper Copy Share Image
Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Grief allows you to let go of something you have lost only when you begin to accept what you now have in… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have… — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
“About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; how well, they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“The times when you are suffering can be those when you are most open, and where you are extremely vulnerable can be… — Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Copy Share Image
According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
“He saw mankind going trough life in a childlike or animallike manner, which he loved and also despised at the same time.… — hermann hesse Copy Share Image
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
![“Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.” quote by Nawal El Saadawi](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/9a8/nawal-el-saadawi-4167_built_women-are-suffering-because-they-are-bei_408487.jpg)
![“It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely.” quote by Kiki Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/6f7/kiki-smith-10643_80s_it-was-a-very-economically-depressed-tim_26978.jpg)
![“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.” quote by Pema Chodron](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/971/pema-ch-dr-n-327_awake_hold-the-sadness-and-pain-of-samsara-suf_1419557.jpg)
