“Your pain is reminding you that the gift of life is tender and precious. Suffering cuts to the quick of aliveness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Pain happens, but suffering is optional. When pain comes, make use of the experience, but do not wallow in it. When you… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Here at our ministry we refuse to present a picture of “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” a portrait that tugs at your… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“The word suffer in its original sense means “to allow,” such as in one of Shakespeare’s dramas when a courtier says, “I… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When… — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Death has an opposite, but the opposite is not mere living. It is not courage or faith or human will. The opposite… — Nando Parrado Copy Share Image
“I saw that Haller was a genius of suffering and that in the meaning of many sayings of Nietzsche he had created… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are… — Ted Olson Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But… — William Foege Copy Share Image
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At such a moment, it is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come… — Jeremiah Burroughs Copy Share Image
I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Fatigues and hardships serve to wean me more from the earth, and will make heaven sweeter.” — David Brainard Copy Share Image
“It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
“I thought you liked suffering and death. I mean... you always look like suffering and death.” — Richie Tankersley Cusick Copy Share Image
A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” — Emil Dorian Copy Share Image
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
This is a dark time, filled with suffering and uncertainty. Like living cells in a larger body, it is natural that we… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
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