Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Keda,' she said to herself,' Keda, this is tragedy.' But as her words hung emptily in the morning air, she clenched her… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Chapter 1 I was sitting in Tina's Sunset Restaurant, watching the outriggers shuffle lazily through the clear waters of Sabang Bay, when… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in… — Moby Copy Share Image
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
Everybody's suffering is mine but not everybody's murdering ... I do not distinguish for one moment whether my child is in danger… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no… — Yoko Ogawa Copy Share Image
We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
“Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a… — Dodie Bellamy Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
If you're directing and acting, I feel like they both suffer, to some extent. There are so many elements to it. If… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
They had rejected the soul-body dichotomy, with its two corollaries: the impotence of man's mind and the damnation of this earth; they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
