An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“One way to evaluate our practice is to see whether life is more and more OK with us. And of course it’s… — Charlotte J. Beck Copy Share Image
Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains."… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the… — Steve Trotter Copy Share Image
In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful… — Aretaeus of Cappadocia Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We must not forget; but we must forgive. Suffering often such compassion from the Jewish community. It was Jewish groups in the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It would be nonsense to say that it was not in the interests of a stone to be kicked along the road...A… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Daniel's face-- the way it had been bathed in violet light when he'd carried her home this morning-- appeared before her eyes.… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The best treatment for feet encased in shoes all day is to go barefoot. One-fifth of the world's population never wears shoes… — Stephanie Tourles Copy Share Image
If you happen to live in Korea, you might always suffer from anger towards people in power, because of political and social… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I hate school at that time. Now, little did I know that actually if I had stayed in school I would've actually… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
It's not natural to have to suffer when we work. We're made to be productive, and yet the world we live in,… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“Vielleicht, daß ich durch schwere Berge gehe in harten Adern, wie ein Erz allein; und bin so tief, daß ich kein Ende… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous.… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“We live this life, full of agony, despair,and pain. Living day by day, having no clue of what will happen, after a… — Junior Isaac Copy Share Image
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Passion means suffering and compassion means suffering together. Suffering produces perseverance and perseverance produces character and character produces hope. And that lifts… — Lacey Mosley Copy Share Image
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, fuels our love and carries our friendships, stimulates our intellect, and pushes… — Pat Tillman Copy Share Image
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it… — Zachary Macaulay Copy Share Image
I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
