“Our story is not only about exile and oppression and suffering. It is the story of thriving, of triumph, and of great… — Daniella Levy Copy Share Image
The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content;… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
The rationale for loving others is the recognition of the simple fact that every living being has the same right to and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests—the loss of his possessions and children,… — Sidney Greidanus Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings,… — Albert Sabin Copy Share Image
Ash: I know better than to interfere with the natural order, but I couldn't let you die. I didn't want to watch… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will… — John Green Copy Share Image
What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Certainly human culture may have achieved great progress in the course of history. Suffering and unhappiness in the human world, however, do… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of the intense suffering of billions of animals, and of our own participation in that suffering, can bring up painful… — Melanie Joy Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Since I have escaped the harshness of the economic bounds of poverty, I have stayed very connected to it spiritually. I reside… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Constant transmigration of the soul from one body to another is the cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA - the second-biggest… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
But there is no such man; for, brother, men Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny should take a few pointers from the mutual-fund industry. All three are trying to pull off… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“What is nature like? It does not allow any living being to do what it wants even to the slightest extent. But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean… — Plato Copy Share Image
Celia, wait,” Marco says, standing but not moving closer to her. “You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image