“In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Within the framework of the Buddhist Path, reflecting on suffering has tremendous importance because -realizing the nature of suffering, you will develop… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The sorest afflictions never appear intolerable, but when we see them in the wrong light; when we see them in the hand… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early,… — Keith Brantly Copy Share Image
I would also hope that readers receive a larger understanding, or a different understanding, of what it means to be human, than… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love,… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
He is not far off; He is there, very close. He is looking at us, and He is begging this sorrow, this… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“It is good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
One very powerful and effective way to work with this tendency to push away pain and hold on to pleasure is the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they… — Julie Klam Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. 'How much do you love me?' And,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“People who go through a heavy experience like that are changed men, like it or not,” he said. “They change for the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“ 'Shoot the wounded ... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they… — Lynn Dove Copy Share Image
Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our… — Julie Summers Copy Share Image
“Regurgitating stories of suffering seems to be part of the process to access any kind of support, whether it be a bursary,… — Pear Nuallak Copy Share Image
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and… — John Clayton Copy Share Image
Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
...with a cat you stand on much the same footing that you stand with a fine and dignified friend; if you forfeit… — Carl Van Vechten Copy Share Image
I can't go on flying apart just for those who want the benefit of a few verbal kicks. My God, do you… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“We make a picture," he said, "of how we want the world to be, and most of the time it isn't like… — M.L.N. Hanover Copy Share Image
“That villainous crew- greed, infatuation, jealousy, arrogance, and pride haunts the mind only so long as the Divine does not take up… — Tulsidas Copy Share Image
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
There is a curious comfort in letting go. After the agony, letting go brings numbness, and after the numbness, clarity. As if… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“Most of the Times, Life shows us how difficult this journey is, only at Times when the sun clears we see the… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
