Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds. — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
In tonglen practice, when we see or feel suffering, we breathe in with the notion of completely feeling it, accepting it, and… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“One or two things are all you need to travel over the blue pond, over the deep roughage of the trees and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When so many of our dreams had come true and yet I still saw that so many of my friends were in… — Jeff Mangum Copy Share Image
The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it… — Stephen Roche Copy Share Image
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Amor fati: this is the very core of my being—And as to my prolonged illness, do I not owe much more to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows my professional history has known I've gone through a gazillion managers and agents or whatever. I'm like, "This doesn't… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I can feel my darkness, like a fragment of nerves inside of me somewhere, sparking my hate. I picture it moving… — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Don't!" cried Jamie. "Don't be bitter, Margaret. We don't know why, we never can know why things happen in this world exactly… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol - no smoking - Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I… — Royce Gracie Copy Share Image
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering. — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this… — Jon Evans Copy Share Image
We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image