“A long suburb of red brick houses -some with patches of garden-ground, where coal-dust and factory smoke darkened the shrinking leaves, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Quality of life is the sum total of the fairness of our tax structure; the caliber of our homes; the cleanliness of… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The basis of all love is self-love and we certainly suffer a lot in our society from lack of self-love. When we… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Jews are told that they should spend their lives helping others and when they make a lot of money it really bothers… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate… — Michael Meacher Copy Share Image
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“that sin is not the only possible cause of suffering has two practical implications. First, it “shatters the myth that our own… — Tremper Longman III Copy Share Image
Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“That it is Peter, the rock of the church, who incurs guilt here immediately after his own confession to Jesus Christ and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People are really in despair today in Greece. They are afraid of tomorrow. They suffer. We have 1.2 million people without jobs.… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
“A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Among the idle rich, boredom is one of the most common causes of unhappiness. People who have difficulty in earning their living… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Since the foods Americans consume are so calorie-rich, we have all been trying to diet by eating smaller portions of low-nutrient foods.… — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry,… — John Walford Copy Share Image
Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made… — Thomas H. Cook Copy Share Image
“As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and pains… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be… — Carol Browner Copy Share Image
“A phantom pain lanced through his ribs, brutally violent and nauseating. His knees buckled. Not pain from a wound of his—but another’s.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“They called our arrangement a 'Death Pact' - but, really, that's not a phrase that tells you anything important. It's just the… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Physical, emotional, and mental pain are inevitable in life. Suffering is another matter. Suffering is the personalization we bring to our difficulties.… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“No one knows, and few conceive, the agony of mind that I have suffered from the time that I was made by… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
On that very night, the night of the greatest suffering that has ever taken place in the world or that ever will… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially… — J. Aleksandr Wootton Copy Share Image