...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan Copy Share Image
“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?” — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“...you should not insult yourself so, sir. Is there not enough suffering in the world?” — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both inperson and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early… — Ben Richards Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials,… — Madeleine Sophie Barat Copy Share Image
We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind. — Dalai Lama 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
There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering… — Summer Walker Copy Share Image
If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, it beauties and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker. — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue? — Nicky Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain,… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.” — Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
