One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have… — John Locke Copy Share Image
In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I'd done all my research and seen that Booker and Gadson had worked with giant folks and little peanuts, too. That just… — Kelly Hogan Copy Share Image
The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Some people may long for an era when divorce was still hard to come by. The spread of no-fault divorce has reduced… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I love my sons, I love my husband, and I love my country. But in kingdoms of men, there are few -… — Manal al-Sharif Copy Share Image
“I was pregnable once,” Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn’t roll… — Darrell Drake Copy Share Image
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without… — Eugene Gendlin Copy Share Image
There's a feeling in my heart I can't explain but one word can , hurt , I've hurt you and now you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“He was glad some of the pain was fading, had already faded so much since the first year. But it seemed more… — Catherine O'Flynn Copy Share Image
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
One whose spirit and mental strength have been strengthened by sparring with a never-say-die attitude should find no challenge too great to… — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
“The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my… — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If a spaceship from the outer reaches of the galaxy landed on Earth in the next two months, and its occupants climbed… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware… — John Farrington Copy Share Image
Pain is a part of life, it is what makes us human, it shapes us the same as laughter and love, you… — Sabreen Copy Share Image
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is… — L. W. Sumner Copy Share Image
~Pain the worst feeling knowing you wanted something so much more than someoneelse. being lied to, being taken for granted- being ignored… — Im Nothing Copy Share Image
