Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Cuba was neo-colony of the United States and still suffers a blockade. So, therefore, the consumer goods and so forth, we don't… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all;… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Look, the unseen bade him, the voice which now communicated with him who was the greatest of mankind, Septimus, lately taken from… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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“Human nature," I continued, "has its limits. It is able to endure a certain degree of joy, sorrow, and pain, but becomes… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
“It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
I think I look good for my age. I've always looked younger than I really am. I'm 67 and I look about,… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I speak of plurality of wives as one of the most holy principles that God ever revealed to man, and all those… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In… — Janice Raymond Copy Share Image
“What is considered moksha of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]? It is where despite having a physical body, pain does not touch… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance.… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Pain without love Pain, I can't get enough Pain, I like it rough 'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all… — Three Days Grace Copy Share Image
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Emily suffers no more from pain or weakness now. She will never suffer more in this world. She is gone after a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
“Karma and hell and suffering aren’t things in their own right but disturbances in this flimsy substance of false self. The problem… — Jed McKenna Copy Share Image
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
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![“I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/708/pico-iyer-1252_accepted_i-wanted-to-bring-the-book-out-right-now_1219108.png)
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