I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
I think it's possible that China is ready for a serious change regarding its North Korean defector policy. Chinese people are starting… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development… — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The name outlaw Christian describes the kind of Christian I am and the kind I’m setting myself free to become: namely, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even the regular sufferings of fear were better than the ashen grayness of unfeeling, the numbness that had clutched his heart for… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I'm the most passionate about pushing the realization that there's the joy of love and kindness and sharing, all of these basic… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
When there is hallucination, there is the truth, by recognising it as hallucination. Where there is suffering, there is peace and bliss,… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
I tend not to attempt to describe pain. I don't feel I can comprehend or re-create the personal suffering of others, so… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities … We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering,… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the… — Julian Beck Copy Share Image
Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“People who have never suffered in life have less empathy for others, little knowledge of their own shortcomings and limitations, no endurance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“There is sheel (the highest state of conduct in worldly interaction) when not a single living being is ever hurt even to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There's a grip we sometimes some of us get on our pain and suffering and our past and our wounding that we… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about… — Luis Tiant Copy Share Image
“You stole five cars. Instead of going into prison or juvenile detention, you endured nothing more than volunteer work. Now that you… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
“FOR SUFFERING May you be blessed in the holy names of those Who, without you knowing it, Help to carry and lighten… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see!… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Now, as I look back on my life, I can honestly say I wouldn't change it. The pain and suffering have brought… — Marie Balter Copy Share Image
[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In America we have only the bourgeoisie, and the love of the heroic is one of the few counterpoises available to us.… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin,… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image