It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We give each other a wide berth even if we have the flu, let alone... So, I think that's part of the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
I find it very annoying that so many animal advocates talk about the difficulty of being vegan. Many animal advocates are inclined… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
When Another Person Makes you Suffer, It Is Because He Suffers Deeply Within Himself, And His Suffering Is Spilling Over. He Does… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses,… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any… — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“if you are unwilling to endure your own suffering even for an hour, and continually forestall all possible misfortune, if you regard… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will… — Suresh Jindal Copy Share Image
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of… — Gilbert Frankau Copy Share Image
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
My existence is such that "I" do not really exist. At the end of understanding so much I understand that I know… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
I talked about the human suffering in Iraq. And I also saw the need to advance a freedom agenda. Imagine a world… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Oceans need more attention because climate change IS an ocean issue. Our oceans will be the first victim, and sea life will… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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