I want to believe in a personal god who looks after me and my loved ones and knows every sparrow that falls.… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
For me, passion means whatever a person is willing to suffer for.'Apostolic passion,' therefore, is a deliberate, intentional choice to live for… — Floyd McClung Copy Share Image
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Feelings should always be allowed to be free. You should not judge a future love by past suffering. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“As a fact, we cannot give suffering precedence in either our individual or collective lives. We have to get on with things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Scripture is about suffering. It has given comfort to millions. It has spawned hundreds of wonderful books that highlight God’s gentle care… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fear stemmed from the unknown. The agony was in the need to make a choice. Weighing the options, trying to predict… — Kelly Walker Copy Share Image
If we take the time to look deeply, we see that understanding and compassion arise from suffering. Understanding is the understanding of… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is that great suffering is necessary to produce great art. — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
It is always dangerous to the liberties of the people to have an army stationed among them, over which they have no… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or… — Jorge Amado Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“The afflictions of the wicked exasperate them, enrage them, stone and pave them, obdurate and petrify them, but they do not crucify… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've never gone through hardships, you will never know when your at the top of your success ! — Jamira Robinson Copy Share Image
I would say that I am not that well-versed politically. I am just someone who wants to speak out about anyone who… — Nadine Shah Copy Share Image
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do our dreams carry messages from the great beyond, sent by the people we have lost, or are they a reflection of… — Zeina Kassem Copy Share Image
A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers should one day suffer reverse. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“(God speaking)...just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“Hardship in our present life is an atonement for sins committed in our previous existence, or the education necessary to prepare for… — John Allyn Copy Share Image
Times of hardship can act as both an indicator, as well as a cure, for our broken relationship with our Creator. — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“Thanks to all my sufferings, I am a man of success because of them.” — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
Religion has convinced people that theres an invisible man ¦ Living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image