The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
“As an indifference cherished, or left to atrophy, becomes an emptiness, to this extent he had learned to become empty of Nicole,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
The antique, almost primitive band he held between his fingers caught the sunlight, glinting silver. “I found this ring shortly after I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“I always understood the idea of the ultimate redeemer, Christ on the cross. But now I was beginning to see that this… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Consciousness and Healing To proceed very far through the desert, you must be willing to meet existential suffering and work it through.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father . . . used to say, 'I need my anger. It obliges me to take action.' I think my father… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
'Sons of the Prophet' is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life - the… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans,… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Whether or not we have personality disturbances, whether or not we have the ability to overcome deficiencies of early environment, is like… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
“There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies;… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned that the worst pain, fear, and torment I’ve ever experienced has only deepened my ability to experience joy. I feel… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
At some point, we have each said through our tears, Im suffering for a love thats not worth it. We suffer because… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I would rather go mad, gone down the dark road to Mexico, heroin dripping in my veins, eyes and ears full of… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The American humorist sat on his couch suffering thoughts of her, trying to figure out how to win back her affections, wondering… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. roger bevins iii It was the nature of things. hans vollman… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I would throw out the sense of nation, "good breeding," certain forms and ceremonies that govern relationships - perhaps even jealousy. We're… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
