Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Heavenly Father, forgive me my sins. Forgive me my weakness and fear. Help me to fight my cowardice. Strengthen my ability to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and… — Cirilo F. Bautista Copy Share Image
Suffering is caused by desire. Desire is wanting something you don't have, wishing something were some way it isn't, or being otherwise… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures… — Sam Shoemaker Copy Share Image
We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you that it's horrible. I want to tell you that being suppressed makes every moment of existence a… — Raphael Carter Copy Share Image
“There is a certain kind of man who is forever searching. He wanders from place to place, he looks hard into the… — Tara Conklin Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hurt 'The Moment of No… — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world… — St. Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening. We all have to deal with… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“These tears are proof that there is love in the world. Tears are only bitter when we cry selfishly for ourselves. When… — Nafisa Haji Copy Share Image
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The pains that you suffer, the loneliness that you encounter, the experiences that are disappointing or distressing, the addictions and seeming pitfalls… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“What’s the benefit of dragging up sufferings that are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then? There is good… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying… — John Green Copy Share Image
“[Men] suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I must admit that I do have a particular soft spot for the character of the chameleon-trickster goddess Ris in Dreams of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
If we're constantly suppressing our strong, heavy emotions - like fear and anger and outrage and sadness - it weakens us. But… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“You see the suffering of children all the time nowadays. Wars and famines are played out before us in our living rooms,… — Mary Lawson Copy Share Image
“The dreams are not torture. They often begin with an elation unlike any I have experience in life. The anguish comes on… — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would call it agony but there is a kind of cyclic frustration. You get one story right and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in… — Willis Regier Copy Share Image
A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others.… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The facts of our lives, when we are able to know them, will free us from the torment we are in. When… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image