“Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to cross boundaries at first, especially if there’s pain in your past. And who among us escapes pain?” — Jessica Lemmon Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“I watch my loved ones weep with sorrow, death's silent torment of no tomorrow. I feel their hearts breaking, I sense their… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones? — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
