Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now… — Koethi Zan Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
Relief is a great feeling.It's the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
“Here sighs and cries and shrieks of lamentation echoed throughout the starless air of Hell; at first these sounds resounding made me… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Those who only seek friends without seeking to be a good friend are selfishly needy and demanding. And those who only want… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the… — Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
“Class consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite--the delusion that class barriers are not real.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity those who doesnt know, That one of these days there heads will blow¦ Their wickedness and evil deeds, In the shadows… — Ylime Aicrag Copy Share Image
There are times when we suffer innocently at other people’s hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The real strength of democracy is that anyone who is not specifically against it must ultimately be for it, while communism suffers… — Edwin O. Reischauer Copy Share Image
“If you can’t forget about all the great pains you’ve endured, as many of us can’t, at least take some time to… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“No one wants to suffer. But much as we would all like to live a totally happy life, suffering is an inescapable… — Richard G. Causton Copy Share Image
The desire of Lain Americans to live in just and egalitarian societies is too strong; it cannot be destroyed overnight. There were… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“My friends, don't idolize hardship. What you idolize is what your heart will look for and what your heart looks for is… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
