Compassion allows us to use our own pain and the pain of others as a vehicle for connection. This is a delicate… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
“Sleep. She needed sleep like she needed oxygen, water and food - yet, she was pretty sure she wouldn't find any tonight.… — Gail McHugh Copy Share Image
I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Here you go on this long long dream. Don't even try to wake up. Just let it go on until it is… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
At a young age, boys learn that to express compassion or empathy is to show weakness. They hear confusing messages that force… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
There’s something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the… — Bart Yates Copy Share Image
“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
The reason writers are such fragile beings, Marcus, is that they suffer from two sorts of emotional pain, which is twice as… — Joel Dicker Copy Share Image
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The worst pain isn’t caused by some random stranger. The worst pain isn’t physical. When the person you love most in the… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
You cry over someone that didn't care about you. They gave you pain and sadness. I know and we all know that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Rising up he put the box containing all of Mack’s words down on the table, pushed it forward with the very tips… — Mandy Baggot Copy Share Image
Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Levi smiled at her. "Your heart is aching now, I can see that. I know what it feels like. The only thing… — Lexxie Couper Copy Share Image
If I'm going to hand over my classic Italian sports car, and you're going to be driving it down Pacific Coast Highway… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“The Struggle is when you are having a conversation with someone and you can’t hear a word that they are saying because… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Once you've fallen in love, it's turned around your whole life. You keep thinking about this girl all the time instead of… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack… — Tara Leigh Cobble Copy Share Image
If I could I would run over every mother fucker who abuses animals, people, kids, I would. I'd run them over once… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Of course it was painful, and there were times when, emotionally, I just wanted to chuck it all. But pain seems to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
