“If misery results within you, it is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts one’s own self) and when someone suffers from painful result… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs;… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Modern culture is in so much trouble, where people don't have a deep inner life, or any deep experience of their true… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The repeated requests for us to 'wait,' and 'wait,' and 'wait' while our people are suffering, while our people are besieged, while… — Riyad Mansour 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
I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our intentions - noticed or unnoticed, gross or subtle contribute either to our suffering or to our happiness. Intentions are sometimes called… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“But if he had come down from the Cross, he would have made it impossible for them to believe in him, for… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of… — T. Babington Macaulay Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) to complain and cry about one’s own misery and it is raudradhyan (wrathful… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion.… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
And just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in… — Saddam Hussein 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
“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my… — Brandon Wade Copy Share Image
“U ovom društvu podjednako patimo svi, i žene i muškarci, samo su uloge podeljene, i to otprilike ovako: Kad mi patimo zbog… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
“suffering. Take the fate of the sick—especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Much of the violence that humanity suffers in our times is rooted inmisunderstanding as well as in the rejection of the values… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The Lord loves us so much that He suffered for us on the Cross; and His suffering was so great that we… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
An old joke puts its thus, "when a man speaks to a god its prayer , when a god speaks to a… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
