“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs;… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is no meaningful distinction between eating flesh and eating dairy or other animal products. Animals exploited in the dairy industry live… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Then the anguish increased to unendurable massivity and nightmare dimensions, making her scream and vomit. She wanted...to have her dark curls shaved… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if practicing physicians, the ones who have come into contact directly with suffering humanity, had some acquaintance… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
“Prayers of petition and acts of compassion come from seeing these things. And while, deep down, we may feel a peace that… — Maria Grace Dateno Copy Share Image
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional… — Dorothy H Cohen Copy Share Image
The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on… — Edison McDaniels Copy Share Image
It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I find it incredibly boring when people are mean about some individuals, especially if the individual has no power. I can understand… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“July 25 Suffering in life is really nothing more than the difference between the way things are and the way you imagine… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more?… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity Copy Share Image
“Fo’ it be so clear to me now, with my family being black an white, that though we blacks have it very… — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
“Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the… — Hendri Coetzee Copy Share Image
Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image