Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh,… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments… — Pierre L. van den Berghe Copy Share Image
“The first days of January 1942 brought enormous amounts of snow. The reader already knows what snow meant for the clergy. But… — Jean Bernard Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
“It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Resilience is the key to a well-lived life. If you want to be happy, you need resilience. If you want to be… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts'… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Sometimes, love hurts. The abrasions of love have inspired many a great writer. From Shakespeare to Jane Austen, writers have at some… — Zoheb Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
The death, and the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus happened over three days. Friday was the day of suffering and pain… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate… — John Keats Copy Share Image
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long,… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Looking at those gashed bodies, and at the witnesses of the execution, doubled up by grief like snapped reeds, I gradually understood… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a… — Tatsumi Hijikata Copy Share Image
“And as soon as you have renounced that aim of "surviving at any price" and gone where the calm and simple people… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Grief is times bailiff sent to evict you from your old life. Its black warrant demands of you hard labour. There can… — Kerry Cue Copy Share Image
“We communed together a moment, one with the other—I was deeply fascinated. At our first encounter I am sure I had a… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
