Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain.… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we're… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was not allowed to think of him. That was something I tried to be very strict about. Of course I slipped;… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many,… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
“It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange… — William S. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I’ve had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today,… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's… — Amanda Harlech Copy Share Image
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most challenging obstacle I've had to overcome was my endometriosis diagnosis. Besides the physical pain that I had to endure, I… — Tia Mowry Copy Share Image
“No one can ever use his heart to listen or touch or feel or see or smell. It's just a lump of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always… — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
“And pain is relative; My particulars may be "better" of "worse" than the patient next to me, but individually our biological framework… — Gail Griffith Copy Share Image
The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.'… — Joo Copy Share Image
The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world,… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Advertising doesn't cause addictions. But it does create a climate of denial and it contributes mightily to a belief in the quick… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall… — Nicholas Grimald Copy Share Image
I really fell for Marilyn Manson. I thought how awful it was that an artist like him could be blamed for something… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Grieving allows us to heal, to remember with love rather than pain. It is a sorting process. One by one you let… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
You guessed? You must have been pretty sure, considering you could have killed me." "I was ninety percent sure." "I see," Clary… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
