People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should… — Shantideva Copy Share Image
“Great Shakespeare!, you who can say everything, everything, everything exactly as it is – and yet why was this torment one you… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“As stone suffers of stoniness, As light of its shiningness, As birds of their wingedness, So I of my whoness. And what… — Laura Riding Jackson Copy Share Image
I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time. — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I grew up poor, hated, the victim of physical, emotional, and sexual violence, and I know that suffering does not ennoble. It… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Running after a ball, scoring goals, celebrating and suffering in a stadium has been my whole life. — Luca Toni Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Part of the reason the Savior suffered in Gethsemane was so that he would have an infinite compassion for us as we… — Glenn L. Pace Copy Share Image
“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some… — Emmanuel Aghado Copy Share Image
Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away. — Sarah Copy Share Image
There is no reason in the world why we shouldn't fight for the preservation of a chance to live freely; no reason… — Nile Kinnick Copy Share Image
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Spirituality is nothing more than the art of paying attention. When I give my whole heart and mind to a task such… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. — James Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
My nature, My personality; who I am. It all came to me last night, I'm a shark. Unlike others who can fly… — Jorvan Robinson Copy Share Image
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
“The sheer anguish in her heart at being let down once again swam like a sea of sludge in her veins. She” — Catherine Bybee Copy Share Image
The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human… — Mstislav Rostropovich Copy Share Image
