“I can fairly say it was the first time in my new life that I really wished I wasn't supernatural: if I… — Candice Raquel Lee Copy Share Image
“Life is suffering Love is the desire to see unnecessary suffering ameliorated Truth is the handmaiden of love Dialogue is the pathway… — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
“According to Hugh Thomas, author of 'A History of the World', the greatest medical advance in history has been garbage collection. The… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
“And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft is in intensive care. He's suffering from a severe case of pancreatitis, which they can't really figure out… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“As Christian mystic Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings… — Brian L. Weiss Copy Share Image
“Your Shadow is a dark omen, a powerful teacher that reveals to you the places in your life where you are energetically… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death,… — Vincent van Gogh Copy Share Image
Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Positive action generates positive thinking, not the other way around. Positive action is a choice, one that can be challenging, especially for… — Lauren Mackler Copy Share Image
When I was at university in England, I went through a difficult phase. Outwardly everything seemed fine, and I was doing really… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
Only few know what righteousness is. It is righteous to suffer for your own foolishness. When you sin, it is righteous to… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured… — Homer Copy Share Image
“we are basically clinging on to certain outcomes that just aren’t natural or even possible. By holding on to these unrealistic ideas… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
So, I'm not the only one who believes that there is such a thing as "the law of gravity," and if it's… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The suffering person faces choices. She can recoil in anger and despair against God. Or she can accept the trial as an… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Human beings, each one, right through the world, go through great agonies, the more sensitive, the more alert, the more observant, the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Only here is suffering really suffering. Not in the way that those who suffer here are to be ennobled in some other… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Work or suffering found her listless and dejected, powerles and repining; but gaiety expanded her butterfly's wings, lit up their gold-dust and… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Social change cannot come above the intellect, it comes about by people suffering. And the more people are related to that, the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
