The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and… — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If… — James Frey Copy Share Image
An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want. — George Lopez Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering. According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art… — Michael Gungor Copy Share Image
“In the light of His example we can see, in the faith of His power we too can prove, that suffering is… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing… — Dalai Lama 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
When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Advaita is the only system that gives us complete control over ourselves, takes off all dependence and its associated superstitions, thus making… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Madame Montoni's sufferings, at length, rose above her pride, and, when Emily had before entered the room, she would have told them… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Obviously, if you're looking for stories of suffering and sacrifice that end with the ultimate fulfillment of God's promises, start with the… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by… — Jocelyn Soriano Copy Share Image
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Hardship and turmoil, I think, is the turning point for lots of young males, the moment when they say, 'Oh, so this… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
“But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of others. We… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less… — DeForest Soaries Copy Share Image
“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image