“And so, it is not our own life that we live, but the lives of the dead, and the soul that dwells… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The naïve girl in me had been bitch-slapped into womanhood. I’d been razed by pain, grief, loss and suffering, and honed by… — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and… — Santa Teresa de Jesús Copy Share Image
“Every time God delivers us, the point is ultimately to draw us closer to Himself. Whether we get to avoid pain and… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Love is for those who know the griefs of time, for it goes hand in hand with loss. An eternity, so burdened,… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail And perish in your perishing unblest. And I have searched the highths and… — James Thomson Copy Share Image
If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
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
