Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or… — Matthew Dickman Copy Share Image
Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws… — Leopoldo Lopez Copy Share Image
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I understood that the teacher was not eing dismissive, that the problem would be addressed. But, without extra upset. A noncombative response,… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Another condition can be attained ... a condition of ecstasy. A condition so far from what the people of planet Earth experience… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Before taking the discipline for the first time, Brother Martin spent considerable time in prayer. Then he lashed himself with an iron… — J.C. Kearns Copy Share Image
When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my… — Sheila Cassidy Copy Share Image
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer... — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
“The Buddha was not full of shit when he said the cause of suffering could be uprooted and that you can put… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
We live in a day when the adversary stresses on every hand the philosophy of instant gratification. We seem to demand instant… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Holiness is religious principle put into motion. It is the love of God sent forth into circulation, on the feet, and with… — Frederic Dan Huntington Copy Share Image
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
“A plain, brown paper-wrapped package came in the mail recently. Upon opening it, I saw that it was a patchwork quilt about… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
