“I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Did people ever stop changing? They surprised you with fresh pain. Sometimes they surprised you with happiness, but the pain was the… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
“I shiver and Tom wakes. It's light enough to see his eyes open. "Are you cold?" he says. "Baby, are you cold?"… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr—who was molested as a child. Uch. That… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
If only I can spit onto ur face and slap all the pain inside my heart now… right before your very eyes… — Anne Copy Share Image
“There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds --… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Trying to keep depression at bay, can't remember when you last felt this way. You try so hard to smile and find… — Rachel Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Remember that neither the future nor the past pains thee, but only the present. But this is reduced to a very little,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
“As emotional radars, empaths instantly pick up on the vibes around them and tend to gravitate the most towards those who are… — Mateo Sol Copy Share Image
“But time's too short to enjoy the moment. Shall we live in the future to allow ourselves to see what the world… — Matt Copy Share Image
“Gautama’s insight was that no matter what the mind experiences, it usually reacts with craving, and craving always involves dissatisfaction. When the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“Unrequited love is no more or less than a kidney stone. The size of a grain of sand, a pea, a marble… — Daphne de Vigan Copy Share Image
Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm… — Emily Doskow Copy Share Image
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Emotional pain rarely comes up for me now. When it does, for sure, I feel it. But then, fortunately, through my life… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t stop a lot of things that cause him pain. Your world is severely broken. You demanded your independence, and now… — Wm. Paul Young Copy Share Image
This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
