“Pain is a temporary illusion. I’ve concluded this through the many people that made fun of me when I said I was… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little… — Chan Khong Copy Share Image
There always comes, I think, a sort of peak in suffering at which either you win over your pain or your pain… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Our kingdom is not… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It's the truth that set me free. Acceptance,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“The swathe of misfortune is a twisted repellent cloth, one we turn our nose at, as we mutter, no thanks. But is… — Nancy-Gail Burns Copy Share Image
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric,… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won't give up.… — Savannah Smith Copy Share Image
In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian… — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It's not enough to look for the truth, however a noble journey that might be. [...] You must be able to say… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have… — Roland H. Hartley Copy Share Image
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Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and… — Arthur Middleton Copy Share Image
If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth. Nuclear arms cannot bolster the security of… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear,… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
“It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss which is experienced only by… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“And you thought: they're used to it. But that was how those who suffered less always thought about those who suffered more,… — James Meek Copy Share Image
George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forwar, and,… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied;… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but… — Richard C. Edgley Copy Share Image
I felt like I had to be conscious of myself as a girl for the first time. I had to be more… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
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