In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“For all the types of pain that can lead to suffering there is a solution. Through opening our hearts with compassion to… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Odyssey’s hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure… — Homer Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious;… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“Most people never get there. They're afraid or unwilling to demand enough of themselves and take the easy road, the path of… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, his people get very near… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“I'm actually very humbled listening to His Holiness,' the Archbishop said, 'because I've frequently mentioned to people the fact of his serenity… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
If you wake up for a moment and look around at life, you will observe that nothing here lasts, nothing works out.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from their inability to get in touch… — Camus, Albert Copy Share Image
The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a… — Shannon Lee Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I'm nervous about my kids seeing action without emotional consequences. Especially in a movie that might be rated PG-13, but just because… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I… — Robert Fanney Copy Share Image
Jesus' whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God's love. Here we see what… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This time is difficult, wait for me: we will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of women who have difficult times who are suffering. I really want women to be encouraged and… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
There are certain pictures I can never take. We turn on the TV and are smothered with cruelty and suffering and I… — Edouard Boubat Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
