“The author reveals a cultural change that took place when clergy were paid based on a tax on the land's value rather… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“When you are Atlas you must carry a heavy load and if you drop it a lot of people suffer, an entire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Brom bowed his head. "Those who love the pain and suffering of others. They wear many faces and go by many disguises,… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid… — John Green Copy Share Image
Awakening is waking up from the daytime dream and realizing that who you thought you were is not limited to thought, emotion… — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
“Lao Tse, village philosopher, believed that the richer a nation is, the poorer it becomes. He believed that knowing war teaches peace,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When from out of error’s darkness With a word both sure and ardent I had drawn the fallen soul, And you, filled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you get up in the morning, before you suffer yourselves to eat one mouthful of food, call your wife and children… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Little did I know where the chief peril lay! Truly Elrond spoke, saying that we could not foresee what we might meet… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain,… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
• The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands… — Orlando Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear.… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savor the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon. Those moments… — Juliana Buhring Copy Share Image
America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
