Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives.… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it… — Dennis Stock Copy Share Image
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits,… — Suharto Copy Share Image
I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
We could make this work, you know." "I will knee you in the groin." "I could give you a night you will… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion:… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work… — Russ Ramsey Copy Share Image
“All at once I feel desperate, outraged. Why am I alone doomed to spend nights of torment, with an unseen jailer, when… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Climate change that is occurring right now is causing so much suffering all around the world. Whether it's adding 30 million people… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
He nearly incommunicable torments of speed, buzzerama, that acrylic high, horrorous, yodelling, repetitious echoes of an infinity so brutally harrowing that words… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“The tears I feel today I'll wait to shed tomorrow. Though I'll not sleep this night Nor find surcease from sorrow. My… — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In a country like Iraq with its culture of blood feuds - is that the more locals are killed, the more motivation… — Yaroslav Trofimov Copy Share Image
Husbands are not Christ. But they are called to be like him. And the specific point of likeness is the husband's readiness… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“At last she sighed. "But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
