. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from… — Jack London Copy Share Image
There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom. — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with. — Rigoberto Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he… — Roy Ratcliff Copy Share Image
You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven. — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating.… — Portia de Rossi Copy Share Image
She really is a completely different First Lady. Eleanor Roosevelt was not going to suffer and withdraw in the White House. And… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they… — John Replogle Copy Share Image
The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“In short, dwell on the negative and our experience here will be that of suffering, but change our minds and focus on… — Brad Olsen Copy Share Image
Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons. — Barbara Ann Kipfer Copy Share Image
Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic.… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays… — Arnaud Desjardins Copy Share Image
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Mr. Reese had told him that life, at its core, was a cruel burden because we had the knowledge that we were… — Willy Vlautin Copy Share Image
“Give a name to suffering, perhaps the most immediate reminder of our insignificance and powerlessness, and suddenly it bears the trace of… — Gary Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will… — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
It is because the world is so full of suffering, that your happiness is a gift. It is because the world is… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
“Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/ I was me but now he's gone/” — Metallica Copy Share Image
Eternal struggle with agony Bringing me tears of sadness I shall never love again As I fill my heart with madness... I… — KM II Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
