You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don't bother taking on parenthood if you can't handle the… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“...what good people can do in the face of great sorrow. We help some time pass for those suffering. We sit with… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“She had come to analysis because she was, as she put it, “ruining her children.” ... “But you are so frustrating,” she… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
“If you are visiting someone and his wife feeds you a wonderful meal, you should be grateful but you should not wish… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. .… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We act, though, not under a utopian illusion that you or I or anyone or everyone together can rid this world of… — David Platt Copy Share Image
If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself; is not puffed up; does not behave… — Craig Williams Copy Share Image
Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Until we get to the point where we've had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The ignorant soul bride wanders in delusion, in the love of duality, she sits like a widow. She sits like a widow,… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I'm doing, and I'm lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It's something… — Stan Wawrinka Copy Share Image
If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“God smiles to calm me and it works. He says, 'They don't realize what they're losing when they bring suffering upon themselves… — Penelope Przekop Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, dont sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
