“Life is a gift full of riddles in which suffering and happiness are inextricably intertwined. Any attempt to have one without the… — Jan-Philipp Sendker Copy Share Image
Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“In virtually every spiritual tradition, suffering is seen as a doorway to awakening. In the West, this connection can be seen in… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
“you are good but you are too emotional the way to whip life is to quietly frame the agony,study it and put… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“My great-grandmama told my grandma the part she lived through that my grandma didn't live through and my grandma told my mama… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
“At any rate, they were strange fellows, these bohemians. They lounged around doing nothing and told you they were working; they were… — Dezső Kosztolányi Copy Share Image
Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If people realized the great pains I go through to impose such delicious torment on him, they would be more punctilious.” — Andrew Cormier Copy Share Image
The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later. — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith;… — W. Scott Lineberry Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“In the face of our common dangers, in this wintr of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and… — President Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
People don't really want to know the truth. The truth is that you are all dead in the future, everything that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the intricate paths of life when difficulties and hardships confront a man, and the darkness of difficulty and suffering becomes long,… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
