Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“I can't help but think of the years and years of awful I’ve had. My years of horror and sadness just seem… — Sarah Ann Walker Copy Share Image
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
“And because the transformation is going to be from the self toward a state of no-self, agony is very deep. But you… — Osho Copy Share Image
God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“I once found a phoenix charred in its own ashes. I brought it home with me, wept through the night, and then… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge,… — Roméo Dallaire Copy Share Image
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
“The lesser the artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others); lesser are the worldly… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God,… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've even survived. But what torments of grief you've endured from evils… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“The soul that knows suffering, understand the grace of solitude.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway. — Jan Carlzon Copy Share Image
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. — Carlton Fisk Copy Share Image
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Of all pains, the greatest pain, Is to love, and to love in vain. — George Granville Copy Share Image
Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused… — Mary Edwards Walker Copy Share Image
In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I… — David Hockney Copy Share Image