Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face,"… — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
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The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has… — Stephen Weiss Copy Share Image
“For us, eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love. We love only the person we can eat. The… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If you are dating someone famous, you tend to be seen as part of a couple, rather than as an individual. But… — Max Beesley Copy Share Image
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
There will be no more danger, pollution or destruction, none of these things that we suffer from so much today. Everything will… — David Berg Copy Share Image
The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
I love the verse in Job, where it says a man deserves the devotion of his friends even when he forsakes the… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
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“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Our conceptions of morality, as all our other ideas, pass through a course of development; the difficulty comes in adjusting our conduct,… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
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Do not delay in coming to grace, but hasten, lest the robber outstrip you, lest the adulterer pass you by, lest the… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
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It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
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Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Look at all the stuff the Existentialists did. You can start with [Pablo] Picasso, you know, and then Francis Bacon and other… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“I am not beautiful, quiet and devastated in my pain like a heroine in a Shakespearean drama; I am no Ophelia quietly… — 404 Ink Copy Share Image
While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all… — Joan Lunden Copy Share Image
I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
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