What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by… — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People… — Susan Dormady Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“Remembering is something God asks us to do over and over in the Bible: “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy”… — Eric Irivuzumugabe Copy Share Image
The essence of that by which Jesus overcame the world was not suffering, but obedience. Yes, men may puzzle themselves and their… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I regard you as one of those men who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
When you hit the unimaginable, the only answer is imaginativeness. You have to heal with the person that you're suffering with. You… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“For the English, life is about not happiness but muddling through, getting by. In that sense, they are like the ancient Aztecs.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
When we started making 'Selma,' the Black Lives Matter movement didn't exist. The parallels between Martin Luther King staging these marches, suffering… — Stephan James Copy Share Image
While you're here in my heart I fight for our love. In the face of suffering and pain, I am ready to… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
To Epictetus, all external events are determined by fate, and are thus beyond our control, but we can accept whatever happens calmly… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Travel books are all sorts - some are autobiographies, some are about falling in love. Some are about having great meals, some… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes… — Bill Jay Copy Share Image
Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was always a very self-conscious person and was picked on for my body type. I used to feel low and sad… — Ileana D'Cruz Copy Share Image
“No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his… — Herta Müller Copy Share Image
I sometimes suffer from insomnia, and one of the first times it ever happened, I was like, 'I don't know what to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“We found, before the hands of the dial had taught us the lapse of a week, that this would be something not… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Holy Suffering "Choosing to suffer means that there must be something wrong with you, but choosing God's will - even if it… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“I believe that God is making all things new. I believe that Christ overcame death and that pattern is apparent all through… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“A twisted, pale figure writhing in agony, chest bare and hideous. Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s… — James Dashner Copy Share Image