My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
For a while after my daughter was born I was at war with God. There's a lot of psychological stuff you deal… — Everlast Copy Share Image
What would happen to a body that was starved, suffocated and then forced to drink poison? It would first suffer and then… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The far-sighted, perfect love that seeks perfection of it's object does not weakly shrink from present, transient, suffering. Our Father's love is… — Mrs. Charles E. Cowman Copy Share Image
Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
“God does not “keep” his people. He loves us, gives himself to us, and eagerly awaits our free response. God wants us… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“If we want to benefit most from our suffering, by prayer and meditation, we will approach our suffering as a good soldier… — J. Ligon Duncan III Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In virtually every spiritual tradition, suffering is seen as a doorway to awakening. In the West, this connection can be seen in… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
I can answer that only by hearsay, returned the Guide, for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have to understand in order to be of help. We all have pain, but we tend to suppress it, because we… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Life, at all times full of pain, is more painful in our time than in the two centuries that preceded it. The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You take for example the environmental movement is a big deal in my district. You know, you might say, yeah, more African… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Suffering is the nature of this world. It is the golden standard by which all things are measured. It is not happiness… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that… — Greg Ip Copy Share Image
No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to… — Morarji Desai Copy Share Image
“Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and… — Dostoevsky Feodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“There is an old Greek saying that men are tormented not by things themselves but by what they think about them. If… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all… — Ann Voscamp Copy Share Image
“People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability of suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!' That's not what… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
People may be vaguely aware that there's suffering in Iraq and Afghanistan, but simply because the media are filled with American-centric versions,… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
